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>Emily Skarzenski wrote: "..Sadly, it seems that type designers can't
>legally protect a type -design-. However, they can trademark the name
>they give their creation. Therefore, anyone can steal a type design and
>resell it, but they can't use the name of the original typeface. Usually,
>the cheaters are selling lower-quality versions (a scan of the original,
>which is not as good as the original)."
Does anyone have a list (personal or published) that groups the
knock-off fonts with the original one? Or, if you can just think of a few
copy-cat fonts along with the original, that would help also. I need help
in controlling the number of fonts that we have on our PC's. It seems like
every software package out there comes complete with 10-30 additional
fonts. Right now we have over 200 fonts that eat up system resources.
*HELP*
If people will respond directly to me, I will gladly compile a list for
everyone and put it out here.
Please excuse this mail if it double posts--our mail server went down this
morning and I was told all outgoing mail was lost....
TIA--
Chris Tarski
UT Southwestern ctarsk -at- mednet -dot- swmed -dot- edu
