I'm not a lawyer, but I did check with one. I don't think software can violate your IP/licenses, at least as long as that software doesn't contain unauthorized copyrighted material -- which pdftohtml does not AFAIK -- I certainly didn't add any to it.
Best, --josh On 9/22/11 3:08 PM, "Leonard Rosenthol" <[email protected]> wrote: >I can't recall what you said about this in the past, but since I was just >dealing with it today. > >What do you do about embedded fonts? > >As my company (Adobe) sells/creates fonts, I want to make sure that >pdftohtml won't be violating our IP/licenses. > >Thanks in advance, >Leonard > >On 9/22/11 5:51 PM, "Josh Richardson" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>On 9/22/11 12:20 PM, "Jonathan Kew" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>More generally, it is not possible to recreate useful XHTML (or similar) >>>documents from arbitrary PDF files with anything like 100% reliability, >>>because many PDF files do not contain adequate information to accurately >>>map the rendered glyphs back to correct Unicode text, or to reliably >>>reconstruct the proper flow of text. Constructs such as ActualText may >>>help, but are often lacking from real-world PDF documents. >> >>W.r.t. rendering glyphs, we get around the problem of missing unicode >>mappings by taking any glyph without a unicode mapping and assigning it >>an >>offset in the private space of Unicode. This produces the correct visual >>result in the XHTML, but not a full semantic representation. If >>someone's >>interested, they could get the semantics right too by pattern-matching >>the >>glyph against an appropriate Unicode font. >> >>W.r.t. the flow of text, there have been other threads on this topic, but >>pdftohtml does make some attempt, and I believe it's possible to do this >>to a high degree of accuracy, maybe >99% -- that said, noone has done it >>yet, so either it's harder than I think, or no-one has cared enough to >>really try (and I still fall into that camp.) >> >>Best, --josh >> >>_______________________________________________ >>poppler mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > > _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
