Are you aware of any font-query tools that tell whether a font is, or is not, embeddable? I wonder what the behavior of non-embeddable fonts, or Scribus, would be if I did try to embed such a font. Yes, what is the Scribus' behavior with such [non-embeddable] fonts? In addition, though I haven't yet tried, What is the status of adobe fonts that come bundled with the Acrobat reader for Windows? Can those fonts be embedded?
Thanks and regards Asif On 4/30/05, frank gaude' <tanzen at sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > 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? > > > > Best regards > > > > Asif Lodhi > > Well, being a long-time font designer myself I can tell you that a > modern font design program like "FontLab 4.6" knows about the various > states a font collection can be in, set by the original designer or > company who owns the font. There's about five conditions, embed, embed > but not permit editing, not permit embedding at all, etc. > > Many font houses don't permit any embedding because a programmer can go > in with the right tools and strip-out the code of the commercial font. > Microsoft permits embedding in most of the fonts they distribute with > Windows and on their web sites. Most other companies don't permit full > embedding as far as I've seen from my years of work, since about 1979. > > Lawyers will have much to say about font embedding. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050430/bd46dd24/attachment.html
