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Bug 332183 - media-fonts/corefonts should include wine's free tahoma font
Summary: media-fonts/corefonts should include wine's free tahoma font
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor
Assignee: Gentoo Fonts Team
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Reported: 2010-08-11 06:28 UTC by App Deb
Modified: 2010-08-16 08:27 UTC (History)
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Description App Deb 2010-08-11 06:28:11 UTC
In the past, the tahoma font couldn't be included in the corefonts package for licensing issues (especially the bold version),

But the wine project has created a free tahoma font that has the exact same looks.

After installing wine the fonts can be found in:

/usr/share/wine/fonts/tahoma.ttf
/usr/share/wine/fonts/tahomabd.ttf

I would be a good idea to include this free font, as it is very important for correctly displaying webpages (and more).

A separate ebuild could be created for this font so that it doesn't have the same MSttfEULA license, but I thing including it in the corefonts is more handy as an all in one microsoft-fonts package.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 App Deb 2010-08-16 08:27:58 UTC
Forget it, I messed up the testing of the tahoma font, the wine tahoma font is different and doesn't event support antialiasing/hinting, so it is very different from the MS one.