Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) (02/25/90)
James Paul writes: >In article <13135@cbnewse.ATT.COM> macduff@cbnewse.ATT.COM (Roger R. >Espinosa) writes: > >...deletions... > >>What *I* do when I ship letters/on/disks to my friends who have Macs >>is to use Font DA/Mover and put the fonts I've used in the letter in >>the letter file itself, so that when they open up the document, they >>can see it in its original font. It's a bit of extra work, I know, >>but when I format my letter to use Garamond-3, and I know for darn >>sure that my friends don't have Garamond-3 on their systems, it's not >>that big a deal. >> >>Roger > >Fine, as long as you have the rights to distribute the fonts you >include. Many fonts are sold as commercial products. Before you give >that font to another person, be sure you know the source of the font. >If you don't have distribution rights to it, don't pirate it. (This is >more of a problem with postscript fonts nowadays than screen fonts.) If it's a PostScript font, then I don't think giving away the screen version of it is a problem. Those things are available for the taking from such places as Adobe's forum on CompuServe. --Adam-- -- Adam Frix via cmhGate - Net 226 fido<=>uucp gateway Col, OH UUCP: ...!osu-cis!n8emr!cmhgate!200.2!Adam.Frix INET: Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG