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FONT RECOGNITION VIA FONT MOOSE
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Richard Howard on eot files
Richard Howard explains on how to get free OpenType fonts: " I recently found a font that I really like (daVinci) and am quite prepared to pay some money for it. Knowing absolutely nothing about the different font issues (I'm not overly into typography), I went onto Microsoft's page after hearing about the new OpenType stuff. Fair enough, useful info - then link to a page using and 'Embedded open type Font' - the same font that I wanted to buy! To cut a long story short, using IE 5.5, I saved a complete image of the website onto the hard drive, copied the 'eot' file from Microsoft's site by working out the path, and voila! - I had my very own Font generator - Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 itself ! Just a case of slipping into Notepad and setting out the text I needed to make my images. My question to Microsoft is - how can these people that spend MANY hours crafting fonts be let down by such LAPSE security holes??? After all, this technology WAS meant to be secure. I'd managed to generate the stuff I needed in about 5 minutes from first loading up the page. I will buy the font anyway to support the author, but this isn't the point. If I can do it, I'm sure a spotty 15 year old kid can." |
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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ https://luc.devroye.org ⦿ https://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html |