FS#12547 - Tahoma Bold missing from ms-ttf-fonts
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Arch Linux
Opened by Jamie (SuperJamie) - Monday, 22 December 2008, 23:15 GMT
Last edited by Thayer Williams (thayer) - Monday, 02 February 2009, 00:28 GMT
Opened by Jamie (SuperJamie) - Monday, 22 December 2008, 23:15 GMT
Last edited by Thayer Williams (thayer) - Monday, 02 February 2009, 00:28 GMT
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Description: Tahoma Bold (tahomabd.ttf) is missing from
ms-ttf-fonts. As a result, when trying to use Tahoma Bold, a
bold font is "created" from the existing Tahoma
(tahoma.ttf), which looks very ugly. If one puts
tahomabd.ttf into ~/.fonts/, the font displays as
expected.
(Technically, Tahoma isn't an MS Core font, but it is the main display font in XP, and quite popular for desktop use. I think the Arch decision to include Tahoma, and by extension Tahoma Bold, in ms-ttf-fonts is a good idea.) Additional info: * package version 2.0-1, Last Updated: 2008-09-13 Steps to reproduce: Install ttf-ms-fonts, try use Tahoma Bold as window titles in Openbox, compare the same to using proper Tahoma Bold by copying the file into ~/.fonts/tahomabd.ttf. The difference is very evident around size 7 and 8. |
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Closed by Thayer Williams (thayer)
Monday, 02 February 2009, 00:28 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: Tahoma has been removed entirely.
Monday, 02 February 2009, 00:28 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't implement
Additional comments about closing: Tahoma has been removed entirely.
Ubuntu removed Tahoma from their msttcorefonts package in version 2.2 (May 2007):
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/
BSD includes detection of the Tahoma font if the user has installed it, but do not distribute the font themselves:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-bugs/2005-October/069676.html
The openSUSE Wiki has found a downloadable package with Tahoma Bold, but again licensing restricts its' use:
http://zh_tw.opensuse.org/TrueType#Getting_some_TrueType_fonts
Someone found a downloadable Tahoma and Tahoma Bold in Microsoft WEFT, but again not redistributable:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+bug/50529/comments/40
However, the Wine project distribute a GPL version of Tahoma and Tahoma Bold, which we could legally include in Arch:
http://wiki.winehq.org/CreateFonts
http://source.winehq.org/source/fonts/
I'll give these GPL fonts a try and let you know how they look.
As for tahoma-bold:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ie6sp1/finrel/6_sp1/W98NT42KMeXP/EN-US/IELPKTH.CAB includes both tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf, but it requires a windows license. I think an AUR package is the solution for tahoma, as it's nondistributable in binary form.
Jan's idea of removing Tahoma from ms-ttf-fonts and making an AUR package with the real Tahoma and Tahoma Bold, with licensing info in that, is an awesome idea.