On 09/05/2007 02:57 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
[...] The 'licensing limitations' concern the fonts themselves. Many fonts, including non-free, licensed ones, are allowed to be embedded into pdf's. Then there are fonts that are not allowed to do so, but which still can be included as a subset, i.e. only the used characters are inserted, and those characters are not editable. Finally, fonts exist that are not even allowed to be included as a subset. It seems that the font that the OP posted was one of them.
Thanks. So I have to remove giap3.pdf from the website. How could I find out what the licensing restrictions are? Ghostscript didn't say anything when I converted the file.
But for most fonts it does not appear to be a problem to enclose them in pdf's this way.
That's good to know. It seems that I can render the fonts by converting the file to Postscript:
export GS_FONTPATH=$PWD # (Bar25if.ttf is in the same directory) pdf2ps giap.pdf giap.ps ps2pdf giap.ps giap4.pdf unset GS_FONTPATH