Re: Handling TrueType fonts not allowing subsetting
Dinu Gherman <[email protected]>
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Andy Robinson: > We have seen many of them. It's a designer's choice and if they set > that flag, we respect it. I think it is probably more about the > rights to embed the font than to subset it; they want it to be used > for printed materials but not "distributed" further. Oh, is that analogous to some famous artists who erect a sculpture in a public place and try to sue people for taking photographs of it? ;-) BTW, there seem to be institutions requiring entire fonts to be embedded in a PDF (probably for data archeology reasons), if I understand this kind of article correctly: http://blogs.adobe.com/acrobatforlifesciences/2008/09/reembedding_fonts_in_a_pdf/ > Perhaps you should only stick to Open Source fonts where you have the > right to change the glyphs as well as delete them ;-) For what it's worth, I've recently discovered a collection of around 800 fonts here (what is probably named Google webfonts), with varying licenses: https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/ There seem to be a few quite nice ones (also as TTF)... Cheers, Dinu _______________________________________________ reportlab-users mailing list [email protected] http://two.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/reportlab-users