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Paul,
They have several unicode fonts that incorporate almost all of the unicode
sets. I have found them very clean and they are continually maintained as
well.
Regards,
Dean Nelson
In a message dated 7/8/2011 8:05:04 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
paul@kitebird.com writes:
As has
been noted on this list, the MS Arial Unicode font is not freely
downloadable.
For example, from last year:
> From: Ron Catterall
<ron@catterall.net>
> Date: June 7, 2010 10:06:34 AM CDT
>
To: Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>, docbook-apps
<docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps]
Font problem - need 2 font files in Docbook
> Reply-To:
ron@catterall.net
...
> A trivial point,
> >
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SpecialChars.html#fontFamilyList
>
includes
> "the Arial Unicode MS font can be downloaded for
free."
> but:
> On 2005-04-11, Ascender Corporation announced it
had entered an agreement with Microsoft which enables Ascender to distribute
Microsoft fonts, including the Windows Core Fonts, the Microsoft Web Fonts and
the many multilingual fonts currently supplied by Microsoft. Called Arial
Unicode, it is sold for approximately $99 per 5 users.
> The font is
also apparently licensed to Apple, who announced on October 16, 2007 that Mac
OS X v10.5 ("Leopard"), would be bundled with Arial Unicode.
>
Unfortunately I'm still on 10.4.11
> Also I've been unable to find
'yogh' in the Ascender Arial fontset.
This font was useful for fop, to
produce PDFs of documents containing, for example, Chinese or Japanese
characters.
How are people dealing with the licensing issue noted
above? Are there other freely-available Unicode fonts offering complete
character support?
Or have people chosen to deal with Ascender (which
has been bought by monotypeimaging.com in the meantime)? Are they reasonable
to deal with? Do they supply font information in a form that's
fop-usable?
(I did search the mailing list archives but didn't see an
answer. Apologies if this has been answered already, a pointer would be
appreciated.)
Thanks.
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