- From: <lee@sq.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Nov 96 22:02:10 EST
- To: evb@knoware.nl, www-font@w3.org
Erik van Blokland <evb@knoware.nl> wrote: > Other people on this list (Lee, > Clive?) will be able to confirm this without explaining exactly how. Yes. Actually I already sent some mail to Todd Fahrner with some slightly more specific details. I am not willing to share these. I will say that the Unix beta 3 of Acrobat is the lest secure that I have seen. It would be difficult to use Acrobat on Unix for more than a few days without discovering that it actually gives fonts away. > Perhaps the kerning info is missing as it is digested in the rest of the > pdf document, For an Adobe font, you can pick up kerning information by ftp from Adobe's ftp server anyway... > FontSucker could even be (perish the thought) a browser plugin. Ha! Actually I am thinking of starting an ftp site with all of the Adobe fonts available that I can find in PDF files. After all, Adobe allows fonts to be embedded, and the reader licence doesn't say you can't extract them, I think. > Subsetting is a compression method, not a protection scheme. Agreed! -- Liam Quin, lee@sq.com | lq-text freely available Unix text retrieval Senior Technical Consultant | FAQs: Metafont fonts, OPEN LOOK UI, OpenWindows SoftQuad Inc. +1 416 544-9000 | xfonttool (Unix xfontsel in XView) http://www.softquad.com/ | The barefoot programmer
Received on Saturday, 9 November 1996 22:02:21 UTC