Thank you, Andreas. I have just downloaded FontForge. Will certainly look into it.
Thanks and regards Asif On 4/30/05, Andreas Vox <avox at arcor.de> wrote: > > Asif wrote: > > Are you aware of any font-query tools that tell whether a font is, or > > is > > not, embeddable? > > fontforge does: Elements->Fontinfo->TTF Values > > > I wonder what the behavior of non-embeddable fonts, or > > Scribus, would be if I did try to embed such a font. > > http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/acrobat/sdk/ > index_doc.html#feg > > Describes the recommended (by Adobe) behaviour of 3rd party apps and > of Adobe's own apps. > > > Yes, what is the > > Scribus' behavior with such [non-embeddable] fonts? > > Scribus currently ignores this flag. In the future scribus might > display its > value and give warnings in certain cases, but I don't think it will ever > enforce it. > Note that licence for embedding is a legal issue, not a technical one. > In some countries it might be perfectly legal to embed fonts for > internal use, > even if the licence tries to deny it. > Also, just because the flag isn't set doesn't mean you are allowed to > embed > and distribute the 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? > > The standard 14 shouldn't be embedded because they have to be present > on all systems according to PDF specs. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050430/fcaa9452/attachment.html
