Re: [AD] Patch to thanks._tx and demo.c

[Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 09:57 -0500, Chris La Mantia wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 22:21 -0800, Chris wrote:
> > I agree. But which font would that be? I can easily do it with xf2pcx
> > and FreeSans-Bold-Oblique here, but it's not the same font (the one
> > closest looking I have though). The one in demo.dat is somewhat more
> > irregular. And we also must make sure to use a font which is free to
> > redistribute.
> 
> Lots of redistributable fonts at larabiefonts.com.  Note that copyright law, 
> at least in the US, doesn't protect font images, just font files (because 
> the outlines in them are "code"), so once you render a font into a PCX file 
> it is legal to distribute.  (Font designers are VERY unhappy about this 
> state of affairs.)  I'm not sure of the situation outside the US.
> 

Didn't search long, but didn't find the one used in demo yet. Also, what
we need are mostly the additional accented letters in the Allegro font -
and I wouldn't be sure that all the fonts there have them.

Heh, and interesting about that legal situation. That's another reason
to use Allegro's BITMAP fonts over other TTF fonts, besides being (maybe
soon even true-)colored :)

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Elias Pschernig