Hunting for a font
Does anyone know if the font used in the print version of the UBS Greek New Testament 4th edition is available for free somewhere online? I have already tried searching for it, but apparently my Google-fu is not quite up to snuff, as I am mostly coming up with articles about how people are glad the font has been changed in the 5th edition. I guess I am in the minority and prefer the old font. Would like to use it in Logos, but have not found it yet. Oh, and I also unsuccessfully tried searching the UBS website. 
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According to the website below, it is the Graeca II plain font. The site includes a link to download. I just found it googling, I don't know if the site is reliable or safe:
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Francis,
Apologies for the slight delay in getting back to you, but thank you for the link. I downloaded the .exe file, but ultimately wound up deleting it. I scanned the file with my antivirus program (Avast) before opening it and did not see any red flags. Then I got multiple warnings from Avast when I actually opened/executed the file. I closed everything out and tried again, this time choosing the "custom install" option, which for whatever reason did not set Avast off. I was unable to uncheck multiple boxes for additional programs the .exe file was wanting to install. After unchecking those boxes, however, the installation froze. I still am not sure what exactly that file was trying to do, but there really should not be a reason for an .exe file at all when installing a simple font. Do you know of a place where I can download just the font without needing any .exe files? I do not mean to come across as ungrateful (because I am not), but I am a little suspicious of that file and thought it was safest to just delete it.
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Sorry about that. Did not know obviously.
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Matthew said:
Does anyone know if the font used in the print version of the UBS Greek New Testament 4th edition is available for free somewhere online?
It seems the font, Graeca II, is under copyright and is sold here: https://www.linguistsoftware.com/graecahebraica.htm. (You may shout "chicken" but I normally wouldn't go to a website with 'torrent' in its name and load something for free that costs money elsewhere).
Maybe old versions of bible software install it (not sure about Libronix - but somewhere my version of it must come. Libronix had a converter tool from Graeca II to Unicode).
Matthew said:Would like to use it in Logos, but have not found it yet.
You wouldn't be able to use it in Logos. Graeca and other old fonts (like Teknia) work by replacing a with alpha, b with beta... etc - since many years this method has been replaced with Unicode fonts. Logos only supports these. Maybe there's one of them that looks similar to Graeca.
Have joy in the Lord!
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NB.Mick said:
You wouldn't be able to use it in Logos.
You provided me with several new pieces of information, but this one seems to be the bottom line. Honestly though, even if it did work with Logos, it would not have been worth $39.95 to me, and I would not have wanted to download for free something that is copyrighted. Seems like for multiple reasons I will not be using this font anytime soon. [:(] Even so, there are worse things in life than not having the font of one's choice, so I will simply count myself blessed to be a child of God and to have access to such wonderful software!
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