Thanks.
In order to avoid these nasty viruses, I tend to avoid many of these
'finds' through the search engines ;-)
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Virgil Arrington <[email protected]>wrote:
One of my favorite free fonts is OFL Sorts Mill Goudy from http://www.**
> theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ <http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/>.
> It comes in both TrueType and OpenType formats. I've found I prefer the
> TrueType as it displays better on my screen. Both print very nicely.
>
> There are other free fonts at the website that you might enjoy.
>
> One thing I learned the hard way is that free font files sometimes come
> complete with viruses, so I would be fairly careful about obtaining free
> fonts online.
>
> Virgil
>
>
>
>
> From: anne-ology
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 3:16 PM
> To: Webmaster
> Cc: [email protected]
>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own
> distinctsetoffonts?
>
> I guess it'd be asking too much for you to share your script-fonts
> with me ;-)
>
> I've been missing them so ... ... ...
> you could DropBox them - http://db.tt/QBTMH08Z
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:40 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> I use to go online to the different free font sites [googled them]
>>
>> Now I have over 14 GB worth and over 100,000 font files. Every so often I
>> do some more sorting to the different style and type folders [i.e.
>> handwriting, holiday, etc.]. The standard Serif and San-serif fonts are
>> sorted by name.
>>
>> There are many, many, free font sites out there. Some better than others.
>> Right now I tend to look for ones for special usage, like letters made
>> out
>> of bones, or rope, or look like wood. That sort of thing, when I need
>> something I do not have. I have a large collection of handwriting ones.
>> Alway want to find better ones for different types of documents. I
>> currently have over 10,000 handwritten, script, calligraphy, and brush
>> type.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/26/2013 01:41 PM, anne-ology wrote:
>>
>> and how does one acquire these nice fonts?
>>> I sure would like to know why the good ones seem to be
>>> replaced
>>> by these odd-character ones,
>>> which may or may not be some legitimate Asian language ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:34 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I have been using Windows since Win95 days, whether I liked it or not. I
>>>
>>>> have been using Linux more than Windows since Feb 2010.
>>>>
>>>> The only real problem I had with Windows and Fonts, was almost every
>>>> time
>>>> I installed a new packages, it seemed to want to add a set of fonts to
>>>> the
>>>> /fonts/ folder whether I wanted them or not. Some did not give me any
>>>> choice. One dumped almost 120 new fonts into that folder, and it was
>>>> not
>>>> something I expected would have any and did not give me the option to
>>>> say I
>>>> do not want them.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, LibreOffice may, with some OS version, place fonts in a folder of
>>>> their choosing and not mine or the normal place[s] where they are kept,
>>>> but
>>>> it is not as bad as some I have dealt with. One wanted to add over 550
>>>> fonts to my Windows font folder. That was a vector graphic package back
>>>> in
>>>> the Win XP days.
>>>>
>>>> What I do, when I find these other font folders, is make sure I copy the
>>>> fonts to a "storage" folder and then install them so the rest of the
>>>> packages can access them. I did that with the LO fonts including the
>>>> DejaVu ones.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 02/25/2013 05:40 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I should have added my caveat that I claim no computer expertise. I'm
>>>>
>>>>> just a weekend geek with enough knowledge to be dangerous.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I copy fonts to my C:\Windows\Fonts folder, I get a message saying
>>>>> something along the lines of "Installing ____ font" or words to that
>>>>> effect. It may be (again I speak from ignorance) that copying the fonts
>>>>> does the same thing as using the "official" install procedure. Windows
>>>>> is
>>>>> notorious for having a zillion different ways of accomplishing a task.
>>>>>
>>>>> My experience has been that fonts installed in the C:\Windows\Fonts
>>>>> folder are available system wide. Again, I've never had a problem
>>>>> regardless of my method of installation.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, fonts installed in other folders may only be available to
>>>>> specific programs. For example, Adobe Reader comes bundled with a
>>>>> couple of
>>>>> really nice fonts (ex. Minion Pro), but it installs them in a subfolder
>>>>> of
>>>>> the Adobe Reader program. I've always suspected that Adobe does this on
>>>>> purpose so that the fonts are available *only* to Adobe Reader and not
>>>>> other programs.
>>>>>
>>>>> Virgil
>>>>>
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>
>>>>
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