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‘Fit’ replacements for Microsoft fonts
June 4, 2007 | 8:52 am
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By David Rothman
Red Hat is releasing free Liberation Fonts that mimic the metrics of Microsoft equivalents. You can make them the default in Thunderbird, FireFox, and Open Office—or even Microsoft Office. Plus, you can set up apps to convert Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New mentions to open fonts. Actual creator is Ascender, commissioned by Red Hat. Further details here. (Thanks to Roger Sperberg.)
Also of interest: Wikipedia on Linux Libertine.
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Microsoft doesn’t permit anyone else to distribute its proprietary fonts. So in regards to really “open” documents — ones which aren’t going to vary by platform used to create or display — Microsoft talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk.
The Liberation fonts can be used on MacOS or Linux devices for documents with the MS fonts without line- or page-breaks changing. They have the same font metrics but not the same designs.
What’s interesting is that Ascender produced the Vista MS fonts as well.