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Nimbus-16 Font: Does it exist?
pixelma:
--- Quote from: cpchan on July 17, 2007, 06:47:15 AM ---
--- Quote from: pixelma on July 17, 2007, 06:25:37 AM ---The font on that page looks different from the rockbox nimbus fonts - from what I can see in the preview.
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Nimbus is not jut one font- It is a family of fonts. The Nimbus fonts (among other type faces) that URW donated are Nimbus Roman no. 9, Nimbus Sans and Nimbus Mono.
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I'm aware that this is a font family but the "Nimbus Sans" (also the others) you linked to don't look similar to the rockbox ones, compare the uppercase "A"s for example. Guess what I really wanted to say is that it doesn't seem to be the font the rockbox nimbus derived from and they only share the name...
cpchan:
--- Quote from: pixelma on July 17, 2007, 08:20:22 AM ---I'm aware that this is a font family but the "Nimbus Sans" (also the others) you linked to don't look similar to the rockbox ones, compare the uppercase "A"s for example. Guess what I really wanted to say is that it doesn't seem to be the font the rockbox nimbus derived from and they only share the name...
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I think there is a difference between the ones they (URW) sells and the fonts they donated. The Nimbus Sans that Rockbox uses is from the ghostscript standard font pack. I only linked to URW as a courtesy because everyone is grateful that they donated a set of high quality fonts.
Charles
cpchan:
--- Quote from: bascule on July 17, 2007, 08:09:50 AM ---However, I somehow missed out the point I was really trying to make:
Is this the exact same original that the project posesses, especially with respect to licensing, so that I could freely re-distribute my new .fnt files with, for instance, a WPS?
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The fonts are licensed under GPL with an exception that you can put these fonts in your own non-GPLed documents. So yes, you can distribute them freely as long as you abide by the GPL. It is included in every Ghostscript installation under Linux and other platforms.
Charles
bascule:
Excellent, thanks.
cpchan:
--- Quote from: bascule on July 17, 2007, 09:17:31 AM ---Excellent, thanks.
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No problem.
Charles
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