Re: PDF (was Re: mailing list)

Erik:
>> FontSucker could even be (perish the thought) a browser plugin.

Lee:
>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.

Er, I hope Lee is making a little joke, whatever he has in the way of extracted 
PDF fonts still has a copyright notice attached to it.

So while one *might* (though I doubt it) be able to make a legal case for 
personally using the extracted fonts, one would certainly be in breach of 
copyright in redistributing those fonts.

In effect, just because you can do it, doesn't mean that it is any more legal 
than stealing fonts in other ways.


-- Clive

Received on Monday, 11 November 1996 16:59:14 UTC