[NTG-context] PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX, font licensing

2010-08-17 Thread John Magolske
Reading through the license of a commercial font I'm interested in, I see it stipulated for PDF files created that: ... a reader or user cannot create new content using one of our fonts in a PDF application ... the complete font is not embedded And in an email correspondence with the

Re: [NTG-context] PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX, font licensing

2010-08-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 08/17/2010 08:47 AM, John Magolske wrote: Reading through the license of a commercial font I'm interested in, I see it stipulated for PDF files created that: ... a reader or user cannot create new content using one of our fonts in a PDF application ... the complete font is not

Re: [NTG-context] PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX, font licensing

2010-08-17 Thread Giulio Bertellini
What exactly does it mean to subset the fonts, when the fonts are included in a PDF? giulio giulio bertellini On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote: On 08/17/2010 08:47 AM, John Magolske wrote: Reading through the license of a commercial font I'm

Re: [NTG-context] PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX, font licensing

2010-08-17 Thread Hongwen Qiu
于 2010年08月17日 15:30, Giulio Bertellini 写道: What exactly does it mean to subset the fonts, when the fonts are included in a PDF? Just included the used characters, not the whole font file. ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX, font licensing

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 08:47:58AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 08/17/2010 08:47 AM, John Magolske wrote: Reading through the license of a commercial font I'm interested in, I see it stipulated for PDF files created that: ... a reader or user cannot create new content using one of

Re: [NTG-context] PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX, font licensing

2010-08-17 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 08/17/2010 03:05 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Do PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX subset the font in this way? Yes, this is the default. So unless you have manually interfered, the included fonts are always subsetted. I'm interested in the other way around, how can I tell luatex (or

Re: [NTG-context] PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX, font licensing

2010-08-17 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 04:34:57PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: On 08/17/2010 03:05 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote: Do PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX subset the font in this way? Yes, this is the default. So unless you have manually interfered, the included fonts are always subsetted. I'm

Re: [NTG-context] PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX, font licensing

2010-08-17 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
Just included the used characters, not the whole font file. Some of the other tables are also stripped down (not only the 'glyf' table), so that the embedded font is not complete. In fact, some programs will refuse to open the font if we extract it from the PDF, which is precisely the idea of

Re: [NTG-context] PDF's generated by XeTeX and LuaTeX, font licensing

2010-08-17 Thread Hans Hagen
On 17-8-2010 8:18, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: Just included the used characters, not the whole font file. Some of the other tables are also stripped down (not only the 'glyf' table), so that the embedded font is not complete. In fact, some programs will refuse to open the font if we extract