Tom Chen wrote: > 1) Do you imply that adding the metrics xml files generated from Adobe > Asian Font Pack or the 6.0 Reader(without embedding the font file e.g. TTF > file) doesn't raise license problem?
Correct (with the usual disclaimer about not being a lawyer). If have some information to the contrary, please let me know. If you have a license to use the font in question, and if you are not distributing it (i.e. embedding it in this case), there should be no problem with distributing PDF files that are created using the font metrics for that font. The font vendor gets his money from the people who need to open the file. To take this a step further, we use mostly Adobe fonts, and one reason for that is that all of them that I know of include a license to embed the file into a PDF document. (We won't license fonts that don't allow embedding -- the PDF is or should be the equivalent of paper, and nobody thinks the user of a paper document should have to license the fonts that created it). Now, there *could* be a problem with FOP distributing the metric files with its software. That probably deserves closer inspection, but I am assuming for the moment that these Asian fonts are provided on a similar basis to the Base-14 fonts. > 2) Do you where we can find the spec for those Adobe Asian Font Pack? I would start by looking at the links listed here: http://xml.apache.org/fop/resources.html#documents-pdf You'll probably need to dig around a bit on the Adobe site. I have a copy of Acrobat 6.0 Pro sitting on my desk uninstalled, but it will be a while before I can dive into that. Victor Mote --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
