[softwarelist] Re: Fonts
- From: Clive Bonsall <cbonsall@xxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:40:57 +0000
On 28 Dec 2009, at 12:26, John M Ward wrote:
> In article <LaZY$QDqFKOLFwm1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In message <50d09d84d6dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Symes
>> <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>
>> I'm surprised there's not more choice, given the number of fonts that
>> have been converted from Windows to RISC OS over the years.
>
> Yes, hundreds of them were made available by Skyfall Public Domain (now
> part of APDL, I believe) -- though their "character layout" didn't tally
> with the regular Acorn fonts, so changing font to one of theirs tended to
> mess up punctuation, for example...
>
>> I'd been thinking about Dr. Fonty, but apparently that only goes from
>> RISC OS to Windows.
>
>> There have been large discs of PC fonts, including from EFF. There used
>> to be a web site of 100's (whose name escapes me "Harry Palmers Font
>> Site" - summink like that) but that went in a copyright argument (what a
>> shock).
>
> Harry Palmer was the name given to Len Deighton's British spy character
> (anonymous in the original novels) for the movies "The Ipcress File",
> "Funeral In Berlin" and "Billion Dollar Brain". I think it was Harry
> Payne whose font emporium you mean :-)
No wonder there were copyright issues, then ;)
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