On Saturday 30 April 2005 00:21, Craig Bradney wrote: > On Saturday 30 April 2005 00:11, Asif Lodhi wrote: > > Hi > > > > Someone has questioned the legality of embedding fonts in PDFs and > > transporting those PDFs on other machines. I am curious about the same. > > Any comments? > > There was a recent discussion WRT to the use of GPL fonts on this list. > Other than that, you will note in the licence for your fonts what the > author allows you to do with them. > > However, PDFs and fonts go hand in hand and I would hazard a guess to say > most font licences would allow *you* to embed fonts you obtained *legally* > and use them for such a purpose. If theres a real issue in some situation, > convert to outlines and be done with it.
I'll add.. IANAL, and none of the Scribus team are. Issues like this are general to DTP and PS/PDF production in general, but are certainly worthy of discussion on this list. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050430/da7c4282/attachment.pgp
