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Article: 14234 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:32:08 +0930
From: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>
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Jeffrey Altman [Road Runner NYC] wrote:
> Bitstream and the Gnome Project have worked to release a set of Open
> Source fonts. The notion was to provide a free set of fonts which could
> be used on Open Source operating systems unlike the "free" fonts which
> Microsoft recently pulled from their web site. These are standard True
> Type Fonts (.TTF) which can be installed on Microsoft Windows as well as
> X Windows.
>
> The Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font is not as well populated as other
> Unicode True Type Fonts however it is extremely readable. One of the
> nice things about the license is that the font may be modified and
> redistributed without royalties. Perhaps someone will add the terminal
> graphics.
>
> You can read the license and download the fonts from
>
> http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
>
> You will need 'gunzip' and 'tar' in order to expand the distribution.
> Perhaps Frank will be willing to place the expanded files on the Kermit
> ftp site.
>
> - Jeffrey Altman
>
Thanks, I downloaded and unpacked the .bz2 version on Solaris, then used
C-Kermit to send the .ttf files to my PC running K95 and Vera Sans Mono
looks good (and just fits a 24 line by 80 column terminal window) at 13
points on a monitor set to a 1024 * 768 display resolution.
Arthur.