[lucida] Lucida Greek

Nikos nikosv01 at gmail.com
Wed May 19 06:37:53 CEST 2010


The url just points to the contents of a Solaris distribution and you cannot
download anything from there, however it shows that these fonts exist and at
some point in time they were being distributed. I've noticed that URW++ have
a set of Lucida Greek type 1 fonts and placed an enquiry;I will let the you
know of their reply

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

>     The jre distro contains the lucida true type fonts. What about the
> (X11)
>    type1/ postscript counterparts ?
>
>    For example take a look at the
>    '/usr/openwin/lib/locale/iso_8859_7/X11/fonts/Type1/LucidaSansGreek.pfb'
>    at
>    http://theunixguys.com/cgi-bin/sunpkg/index.cgi?detail=SUNWi7rf
>
> That url doesn't work for me ("Software error").
>
> In any event, if you personally have Lucida pfb's that legally came with
> your operating system, I expect it is fine to use them.  Downloading
> random Lucida fonts found on the net does not seem right.
>
> From what I remember in the past, B&H does not like it when their fonts
> are automatically converted from one format to another, so I can't
> advise going that route, either.
>
> I hope we will be able to offer them through TUG at some point.
>
> Best,
> Karl
>
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