[Squeakfoundation]Visibility in the open source community

[Henrik Gedenryd]

Andreas Raab wrote:

> I agree. However, considering all the rants about the copyright issues
> and considering that it appears to be impossible to protect _bitmap_
> renderings of TrueType fonts (as opposed to the possibility that someone
> - e.g. Apple - might care about some 'original bitmap fonts') it might

No. It is impossible to copyright bitmap renderings, even if they were done
by hand.

> be worthwhile to replace the fonts in the image with bitmap
> representations of well-known TTFs (such as Arial, Times New, Verdana,
> WingDings etc).

In fact what you see on the screen is hand-edited bitmaps of these as well,
at least those that look good on screen like Arial and Verdana, most likely
the others as well. They are embedded in the ttf:s.

Henrik