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Surely Adobe Acrobat will solve both problems ?
The recipient only needs to have the Acrobat Reader installed,
and who does not already have that ?
Raymond Mercier
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 10:29
AM
Subject: Fonts on Web Pages
Anyone know the current status on embedded
fonts in web pages?
I basically have two questions. (1) Assume the
existence of a font to which I legally own the copyright. For example, let's
say I invented it. Now, I design a web page which uses this font. Now, it's
easy (but terribly inconvenient) to say on the web page "Please
download and install this font in order to view this web page correctly", but
the truth is I know damn well that no-one will ever do that. So, short of
using small image files, what's the current state-of-the-art technical
solution to this.
Question (2) is the same
as question (1), except that I don't own the copyright. Suppose, for example I
want to use this font called Garamond. It's on my machine. (I don't know how
it got there - I think it came pre-installed with the OS). But of course, I
can't guarantee that it will be installed on someone else's machine.
And since I don't own the copyright, and don't have explicit permission to
distribute it, I don't think I'm even allowed to say "Please download and
install this font in order to view this web page correctly". How do we solve
this one?
Jill
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