johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (11/28/90)
Hello HyperPersons! A friend of mine is developing a stack that he wishes to distribute widely as freeware. It includes some nice routines for printing with either the Imagewriter or the Laserwriter. The problem: he'd like the stack to be accessible to many users, but also insists on using Zapf Chancery because it looks great on his LW NTx. "The rest of us" with original LW's or 3rd party printers won't have access to the PS version of this font. That's tough, of course, but then I noticed that my Hypercard 2.0 disks include Palatino which falls roughly into the same category. Does anyone have any thoughts on the _appropriateness_ of including fonts with a stack? Not in the stack, that's taboo, apparently. But is it legal to include screen fonts with a freeware product? Perhaps, hopefully, I am missing a simple way out of the problem? (Already know it's the death penalty for distributing a PS font!!!) Thanks for any advice you might care to offer, Bill Johnston (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)
wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) (11/29/90)
Sure. You can do that.
Screen fonts for the Adobe font set are freely distributable. You should
be able to find a copy you certainly can distribute on sumex.stanford.edu.
Note that the screen font which came with your Mac may not be freely
distributable if it's not identically the same.
Oops... just checked. Though there are lots of great screen fonts in the
/info-mac/font/adobe directory on sumex, Zapf Chancery itself is not there.
That doesn't mean that you can't distribute it, though. I suspect you can.
Armed with this information maybe you can pin someone down who should be
able to tell you definitively.
-- Mark Wilkins
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