A bit of a follow-up to the Tahoma thread; as I've chronicled on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/50529 I've discovered that MS Word allows you to embed certain fonts (based on a 4-tier licensing scheme) inside files it creates; what's even more interesting is that for the most 'permissive' embedibility, a font "may be embedded in documents and permanently installed on the remote system" :-)
When the Word97 viewer (what I tested, with Wine) opens the file, if the font isn't already installed, it automatically extracts and installs the font onto that computer in C:\windows\Fonts (yes, that sounds like a security risk to me, but hey, its Microsoft, ne? :) So here's the puzzle: I created a RTF file with Wingdings embedded into it: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16679172/Wingdings.rtf (with a legit copy of Word 97 I bought at a thrift shop for $2! Take *that* Microsoft! ;) The Word 97 Viewer: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/wd97vwr32.exe Outputs a TTF the exact same size as the orignal Windings font (though not the same MD5SUM, curiously). Now, inside the RTF is a very long batch of what looks like hexadecimal which is the font in some sort of encoded/compressed manner; the text itself is almost exactly the same filesize as the font, so the conversion is hopefully not hugely complicated. Indeed, it seems that OO.o is working on this: "Currently we do nothing with these (fairly rare) embedded fonts, though if you are a developer you can examine sw/source/filter/ww8/ww8par.cxx SwWW8ImplReader::CoreLoad and search for the comment "experimental embedded ttf dumper" which shows how to enable dumping the embedded font data." http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=59931 But what would be really handy would be a little app to go something like: $ rtf2ttf Wingdings.rtf and out would pop the file :) It would not be long then until msttcorefonts could add Arial Narrow and Wingdings (maybe a new package 'msttmorefonts' ;) Can anyone here create such a thing? As software libre, of course ;) Sincerely, Conrad Knauer -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
