Is there possible to use Apple fonts in Linux?


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Possible. Most likely.

Legal to copy and use? Not likely at all.

Vista has some fonts now that are pretty restrictively licensed. Older versions of Windows had a license that was loose enough to say your PC was licensed to use the fonts as long as you had a valid Windows license for that PC (and most PCs are sold with Windows pre-installed).

You would need to check into the specifics of the Apple licensing.

On the other hand, it is perfectly legal to "clone" a font. As long as it isn't a computerized transformation of the font files. Someone has to print and trace/re-define the font lines and curves manually. But that method gets identical fonts without copyright infringement.

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just answering: yes it's possible :p and if you set the font rendering to ignore hinting, then it looks just like OS X's rendering :)

Not even close - the way Linux and OSX render fonts are two completely different techniques.

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