What is your “basic” list of fonts every linux desktop user should install ?

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Hahah purchase a license. I dont get it, these are just ttf files that are needed for basic compatibility

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Those fonts are not free. They may be just ttf files, but there is a massive amount of work that goes into creating a font with unicode support. If you just want fonts for basic compatibility, you can use open source fonts with compatible metrics such as the Liberation fonts or use the microsoft core fonts that haven’t been updated in 20 years.

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        1 year ago

        Yes I know. But I mean microsoft will not get poor if we share their proprietary fonts they set as default on all documents.

        Btw how are fonts integrated in PDFs? You can load the documents without the fonts installed

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          Many fonts have a license that allows them to be embedded in a pdf. Newer fonts usually have a flag that tells the software if the font can be embedded or not, not all software respects that flag though. Older fonts don’t have the flag and will embed even if you are not allowed to embed them.