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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Oct 26 16:03:19 +0000 2008 ------- In some posts above we talk that font files that directly include license text is a good thing. I discover :-) that TTF font files can carry full license text (by non-standart way) and this is no necessarily to ask TTF format developers to add license fields into TTF specification. This is about Bitstream Vera Fonts (http://www.gnome.org/fonts/): "Note that the Vera copyright is incorporated in the fonts themselves. The License field in the fonts contains the copyright license as it appears below. The TrueType copyright field is not large enough to contain the full license, so the license is incorporated (as you might think if you thought about it) into the license field, which unfortunately can be obscure to find. (In pfaedit, see: Element->Font Info->TTFNames->License)." The technical details can be found here: http://developer.apple.com/textfonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6name.html (table 42 "Name Identifiers", NameID codes 0, 13 and 14). We can see that fonts developers use "License" field for license text but this field "should be written in plain language, not legalese" according to specification because of "Copiright notice" field is too small. Future OpenOffice should know this trick. I surmise that TTF can have other formats. The situation with Type 1 fonts is not so good and far more compex. I found 3 file types related to Type 1 on my system: .afm, .pfa and .pfb. This was found in X11 font directory. It is possible that some other formats exists in CUPS, ghostscript and xpdf directories. The specification for .afm is here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/font/pdfs/5004.AFM_Spec.pdf It discribes only optional "Notice" field (on page 26) that can contain "Font name trademark or copyright notice". I view real .afm files on my machine and see short copyright info in "Comment" and "Notice" fields. I am not sure that specification for .pfa is this: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/T1_SPEC.PDF This specification mentions "Notice" field but not describes it (at least I did not found description). In real .pfa files I see short copyright info in comment (starting from "%%") and in "Notice" field. I did not found specification for .pfb format at this time. The CCF format for Type 1 also exists, specification is: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5176.CFF.pdf It contains "Notice" and "Copyright" fields. Earlier versions of this document contained section 18 "Copyright and Trademark Notices" but it was removed according changelog. I did not found description of this fields in modern version of document. The .pfm files also exists in nature. The document (not specification AFAIK) describing this format is here: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5178.PFM.pdf It describes "dfCopyright" field in table 1 "Header". This field is "60 byte string, null padded" so it can not contain full license text but can contain license name (for example, "GPL + font exception"). I surmise that Type 1 fonts can have yet more formats. Some places with links to specifications: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_1_font http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/opentype/index_font_formats.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
