Comment 24 for bug 50529

Lennart: The problem is that the Tahoma set (tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf) was not part of Microsoft's "TrueType core fonts for the Web" (see http://web.archive.org/web/20020802092546/http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/win.htm for what the site looked like six years ago before it was "discontinued"). The latter were nicely redistributable as per the licenses they contain. The former can easily be found on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188081 as the link to "Tahoma32.exe" BUT if you run that exe, you are presented with a license that is not so nice for us; it reads in part:

"You may install and use one copy of the SOFTWARE on a single computer which is running a validly licensed copy of Microsoft Office, or any standalone software application that is part of Microsoft Office. [...] Copies of the SOFTWARE may not be distributed on a standalone basis or included as part of your own product."

The best that they could find was the Word 97 viewer which IS redistributable, but only contains tahoma.ttf

If you can find a source for tahomabd.ttf that is redistributable and not overly restrictive, please let us know! :-)