[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This may sound like a stupid q but why? I mean, fonts take up virtually no space and AFAIK cant be used in a malicious way? Can they? Is this some old ruling from the old school or is there a valid reason fonts declared in CSS cant be retrieved upon request?
fonts are assets that are typically purchased, so you cannot give someone a font that they didn't pay for. However, you can include whatever font name you'd like (assuming you do it properly) in the list of fonts suggested for the style. If the user doesn't have it, the browser goes to the next font specified in your font-family list...and so on. For that reason, it is wise to specify serif or sans-serif at the end of your list as all machines typically have both types of fonts used by the system.
Some fonts won't even show up in a PDF...for example, if you build something in Illustrator that uses a font like Barbara Hand, you have to convert it to paths to make a pdf.
It isn't about maliciousness at all; it's about infringement on copyrights and fair use under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act
And sorry, the user has to have a font installed to use it. For barcodes, I'd use images.
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