"Philippe Verdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's why I think that font design providers (Adobe, Agfa MonoType, ...) > should agree on a common format to allow authors to distribute freely the > documents they create with these font designs. Then it's up to them to > cooperate with operating system vendors so that these OS will be able to > embed licensed fonts in documents, by managing two font stores in the OS: > one for reusable licensed fonts that can be used and selected to create > documents, one that get used as embeddable fonts (containing a signed copy > of the license) when these documents are exported for publishing: the > embedded fonts in the document then contain a signature of the license used > by authors, and this signature cannot be removed from embedded fonts, nor > detached from the document to create another document, without making the > embedded font undecypherable/unusable. This may be of relevance: http://www.aiim.org/documents/standards/ISO_19005_(E).pdf - Chris
