[Bug 50529] Re: msttcorefonts lacks the 'Tahoma' font

[Conrad Knauer]

Just to document another source of Tahoma and Tahoma Bold: Office 97 Service Release 2b (23 MB)
https://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=EN&id=10791
cabextract does the trick, but it's only for computers with validly licensed copies of Office, of course, and probably not redistributable at all.

Trying to find a cheap copy of MS Office 97 Developer Edition, but still
no luck. I wonder if someone long ago made some redistributable freeware
with ODE97 for Win 95 or such that has the tahoma and tahoma bold fonts
hiding in them... Will have to look around.

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Title:
  msttcorefonts lacks the 'Tahoma' font

Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  New
Status in “msttcorefonts” package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  According to http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ as of April 30, 2006
  there was "A long awaited overhaul. Many things are fixed, links
  updated. Selects a random mirror. Uses tahoma from word 97 viewer
  instead of the ie6 update so no windows license is needed."

  I have downloaded the word 97 viewer in question (e.g. from
  http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/corefonts/wd97vwr32.exe) and
  then extracted it with these commands, only slightly altered from the
  sourceforge version of msttcorefonts:

  cabextract --lowercase --directory=cab-contents wd97vwr32.exe

  cabextract --lowercase --directory=cab-contents cab-
  contents/viewer1.cab

  The EULA (see license.txt) states in part:

  ---
  This EULA grants you the following rights:

  -  Installation and Use. You may install and use an unlimited number
  of

  copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT.

  -  Reproduction and Distribution. You may reproduce and distribute an

  unlimited number of copies of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT; provided that each

  copy shall be a true and complete copy, including all copyright and

  trademark notices, and shall be accompanied by a copy of this EULA.
  Copies

  of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may be distributed as a standalone product or

  included with your own product.
  ---

  Thus the Tahoma font, now being available from a package of nearly
  identical licensing as the others, should be added back to the files
  downloaded by msttcorefonts. Please set this as a "whishlist" type bug
  if approved.

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