monopoly on fonts?

**cgonzo** · April 19th, 2004, 10:24 AM

A lady I know changed computers. Now one of her old publisher files pulls up saying that the old font (Abadi MT light condensed) is unavailable. I was going to try to find the font or something similar for her, but everywhere I search, I get redirected to fonts.com which wants to charge $22 bucks or more for any font I search for. Am I looking in the wrong places?

**Archer** · April 19th, 2004, 10:34 AM

Copyright: Monotype Corp
A TrueType version of this font is provided free with the Microsoft Office Value Pack (Macintosh).

http://www.identifont.com/show?1MQ
So looks like its copyrighted,unless you can find a publishing suite that includes it your going to have to pay $22 to install it.

**CeeBee** · April 19th, 2004, 10:52 AM

Why not just transfer the fonts from the old machine??? Am I missing anything here???

**Ya_know** · April 19th, 2004, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by CeeBee

Why not just transfer the fonts from the old machine??? Am I missing anything here???

I am sure he thought of that. I was going to say the same thing too, but from the sounds of it the old PC is long gone...

Can't hurt to say it though!

**cgonzo** · April 19th, 2004, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by CeeBee

Why not just transfer the fonts from the old machine??? Am I missing anything here???

Actually, I pulled up the old box. Browsed the HD. couldnt find the font by name. Looked in all folders named *font* and couldnt find still. But when I pull up publisher there it is. Probably something simple I am missing.

Not a big deal, I know. The lady can use her old box to make the changes she needs. I was just curious as to why every font I happened to look for was $22. Even simple arial came up as pay to download.