Tahoma (or, Does anyone have a copy of "Microsoft Office 97 Developer Edition"?)

Conrad Knauer atheoi at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 23:18:35 UTC 2008


On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au> wrote:

>> "Microsoft Office 97 Developer Edition includes a Setup Wizard that
>> you can use to create a Setup program that users can run to install
>> files for a custom application. [...] The files available for
>> distribution allow you to distribute an application developed using
>> Microsoft Access to users who do not have Microsoft Access."
[snip]
>>
> IANAL, but as I read that: *If* you create a run-time with the Microsoft
> Office 97 Developer Edition Tools, *then* you can redistribute
> TAHOMA.TTF TAHOMABD.TTF with said run-time.
>
> I suppose you could create a run-time that said "Hello World", and
> distribute that with the two files, but I'm pretty sure that's not what
> you meant :)

Actually yes, that is *exactly* the sort of thing I was proposing! =D

Just be sure that it displays "Hello" in Tahoma and "World" in Tahoma Bold ;-)

CK




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