> Note that the fonts in question merely place Adobe bitmap accent glyphs
> on top of Adobe bitmap base character glyphs. That's how the many accent
> glyphs in the PostScript encoding were meant to be used. They don't
> really add new character designs. The fact that the precomposing happens
> in the BDF file and not in some rendering routine is merely a technical
> detail and shouldn't change trademark issues in any way.
>
Given that data, it seems that going ahead would be the right course of
action; even figuring out who to ask would be difficult. It seems exceedingy
unlikely that any sane company would have any objections to doing that
operation on obsolete fonts, even with the name being preserved.
I mostly wrote my note to be educational to people on the list who
have never worked with a font company; something I've spent substantial
time over the last year doing.
- Jim
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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
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