Licence Restrictions & Font Embedding

[dominic.martin]

Hi,

Our company has a corporate font that we use in all our literature. I
need to be able to embed the font within the document to make life
easier when it's passed around for review and sent to the printer.

I've turned on font embedding. Publisher informs me that this font may
not be embedded. The help file puts this down to licence restrictions.
However, when I downloaded the Microsoft extension
(http://www.microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeProperty21.mspx) to view
licence and embedding information for each font, I found the following:

1. Editable embedding is allowed, so long as the font is only
temporarily installed. (There is a specific listing for not allowing
embedding at all.)
2. No licence information was found in the font.

To me, this says that embedding within Publisher should be allowed and
it was software from Microsoft that told me this, so surely, Publisher
must be reading the same info. Other fonts that can be embedded seem to
give the same information. What is Publisher finding that I'm not? Any
ideas?

Thanks,

Dominic

 

[Greg R]

Even through some people here may disagree. Some say that the fonts
are open source. Others say they are not. I think you could use
another program since it is just your own logo for font embedding.



Greg R

 

[Mike Koewler]

I sense that font embedding is becoming more and more of a gray area,
covered with transparencies and masks. I know of at least one DTP
program that will embed all real fonts, regardless of license
restrictions. I know Acrobat also allows one to change the attributes of
a font so that it is reported as embedded, but don't know how it prints.
Some of the other PDF generating programs may also embed the font, or
convert it to curves. That's not to mention bunches of printers who see
nothing wrong with loading a font to print, then removing it afterward
(at least in theory!).

Mike