From: jameskass@att.net
Date: Tue Nov 25 2003 - 15:07:04 EST
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Peter Constable wrote,
> On Behalf
> Of Ritu Malhotra
>
>> Could someone kindly help me by providing an exe(Font utility) that
>> will not only edit open type fonts(ex: Mangal.ttf)...
>
> Making changes to mangal.ttf or other Microsoft fonts would be in
> violation of the end-user license agreement which you agreed to when you
> installed the software, and is illegal.
Peter is absolutely correct. And, it's not just Microsoft fonts
which mustn't be altered by the end-user.
Most font developers restrict rights on their fonts. Obtaining a
legal copy of a font only grants the user the right to use the font;
not to make changes.
Best regards,
James Kass
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
> On Behalf
> > Of Ritu Malhotra
>
> > Could someone kindly help me by providing an exe(Font utility) that
> will not
> > only edit open type fonts(ex: Mangal.ttf)...
>
> Making changes to mangal.ttf or other Microsoft fonts would be in
> violation of the end-user license agreement which you agreed to when you
> installed the software, and is illegal.
>
> If you want a Devanagari font that uses a non-standard encoding, there
> are plenty of them out there that you can use without doing anything
> illegal. See, for instance,
> http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/LANG/HINDI.HTML.
>
>
>
> Peter
>
> Peter Constable
> Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
> Microsoft Windows Division
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