buying fonts you have "lost"
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- applepirate
I have had 4 harddrives fail in my 10 years as a "computer" worker. I have lost my portfolio twice... but no biggie that just makes you want to back up more next time and do better work....
my issue is now i have found an old DVD-R of flash files from my past.. really glad i found them. But i dont have any of the fonts anymore... i either had them at the agencies i was working with or on my mac 5 or 6 mac's ago... what are the moral issues of "stealing" fonts for free that you have already paid for somewhere down the road?
Im ok with pirating software.. actually i thrive on it. but elements like fonts and photos i feel like you should pay for...
thoughts??
- hiimerik0
i dont know how you feel you can pirate some things but not others.
a pirates a pirate. yarrrrrrr
- +1omgitsacamera
- pirating software that i could never afford to learn the software then buy it if i use it i feel fine about!applepirate
- thats the most generic response to make those guily feelings go away... the best thing to do is stop lying to yourself.hiimerik
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- ribit0
Actually if you have a license for the fonts (i.e. can document it), then it doesn't really matter how you get the replacement font file again does it? Whether you get the software direct from the manufacturer (do they charge for resupply?) or elsewhere, its the same thing you licensed isn't it?
- but I'm guessing you can't document your license ownership....ribit
- uncle_helv0
who cares... just keep your lip buttoned and get on with it!
- i know i can get the fonts back no problem. I just have some "friends" at agencies that hate sending emapplepirate
- What do you need?uncle_helv
- shit.. the list is huge. All of my old flash files are opening up with fonts missing. I can email you the listapplepirate
- email it then. ive got a a fewhiimerik
- hiimerik0
"get on with it!"
nuff said
- capsize0
And what will you do with the big, big, big money? Have you not everything you need? Have you not everything you need? If you need a motor car, you pluck it from the trees. If you need pretty polly, you take it.
- gramme0
If you have ACTUALLY paid for them and for some reason no longer have documentation, then get them however you can, I say. I've done the same with music, I've lost my entire music collection twice. No sense in paying for something twice.
- Milan0
losing fonts you have "bought"
- jaylarson0
if you don't have to pay for it and the foundries will reimburse you of your fonts that's better as the copies floating online tend to have really whacked matrices.
- applepirate0
yeah that is another issue i was having i would ping some friends asking if they had a font or two since we worked on sites collaboratively... so many of the fonts i have gotten seem really rotten. It took me three weeks to figure out that OSX was freaking out over a fucked up Arial that i accidentally installed when someone sent me a HUGE folder of "every font i would ever need".
is there a better tool to use for OSX then Linotype Font Explorer? I found it a few years ago and stopped looking then.
- Josev0
This is something that I've been thinking a lot about lately. I bought a number of font packages in the early 90's but never thought to save the invoices. I pitched my tax files from before 2001 so I don't have the sale records. My new practice has been to make a PDF of the e-mail/purchase receipt and store it in the font family folder.
I wonder if the foundries would supply a new set if the software was old (for instance -- I have the full Adobe Futura set that I bought and several of the fonts won't load in suitcase because they're damaged). There would have to be some fee for the new software.
- designbot0
To the anti-piracy nazis,
Are you actually implying that he should buy the fonts a second time simply to display some old portfolio work? That is ludicrous.