Comment 27 for bug 50529

I sent another e-mail to the msttcorefonts maintainer:

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Oh wow, I just discovered something else neat too! :)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/113822/en-us

"Microsoft Word allows you to embed TrueType fonts in a Word document
so that you can view and edit the fonts (if licensing rights allow),
even if you open the document on a computer that does not have the
font installed.

There are apparently four embed 'license' options, but the one of
interest to us is "Installable": "The font is installed on the target
computer permanently when you open the document. This allows you to
use the new fonts as if you installed the fonts directly into Windows
yourself."

"To determine the licensing rights of a particular font, Microsoft
provides a Font Properties Extension tool"
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeProperty21.mspx

Now, unfortunately Tahoma and Tahoma Bold aren't that kind, but I note
that Arial Narrow IS (its absence from msttcorefonts is mentioned
along with Tahoma on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Fonts). There are other
fonts like this too. Now, when you install the Font Properties tool
and right-click a font (e.g. in Windows XP) there is also a "License"
Window (note http://www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeEmbedding.mspx).
 So long as the embed says "installable" and there is no specific
language in the license preventing copying onto a Linux system, I
think we have a redistributable container (a DOC file) with which to
send out MS fonts...

The only question is how to extract them from the DOC file; I wonder
if Wine plus the word97 viewer could do that.
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