[TriLUG] Finding GPL Fonts

[Timothy A. Chagnon]

Solved my own problem, but thought I'd share the solution with the list.

Turns out that the URW Postscript Type1 fonts that are installed on my
RH/FC systems _are_ GPL'd and just copyright held by URW.  For other
rpm'ers, the package is urw-fonts and they end up living in
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/.  These are most of the fonts you might
see in OO.o for example Nimbus Roman/Mono, Century, Gothic, Palladio,
etc.

To convert one of these to ttf for use with the GD library in PHP, I
used Font Forge ( http://fontforge.sf.net ) and followed some
instructions http://www.squirrel.nl/people/jvromans/OOo/oofonts03.html

Tim

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 15:04, Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:
> Anybody know where I can find a Courier-like GPL font in TTF (or
> convertable) format?  Google has only revealed a few odd-balls and the
> fonts on my FC2 and EL3 systems appear to be non-free.  I'm aware of the
> GPL font weirdness[1], but I'm not using it for documents anyway so that
> doesn't matter.  And due to licensing policy at $WORK, the stuff I write
> is oss, but not quite GPL, so I can't package it anyway... Just need to
> point to a stable location for people to download it on their own.
> 
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> Tim
> 
> [1] http://tinyurl.com/9xros
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Timothy A. Chagnon <tchagnon at futeki.net>