Re: More Printer/PDF/Font problems

["Dmitri Iounov" <yudmi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot, Dov.

Adobe Customer DB support Search Results for ""cannot be embedded due to
licensing""
that may be helps ..
http://www.pdfzone.com/rich/fonts1.html Good review
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/196e2.htm
http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/1aeca.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dov Isaacs" <isaacs@Adobe.COM>
To: "Dmitri Iounov" <yudmi@star.spb.ru>
Cc: <framers@omsys.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: More Printer/PDF/Font problems


> Dmitri,
>
> Acrobat Distiller 4.0x does NOT look for any protection mechanism
> in any fonts other than Type 42 TrueType fonts.
>
> OpenType fonts are not directly supported by Acrobat 4.0x. They must
> be sent to Acrobat as either Type 1 or Type 42.
>
> There is nothing in the Type 1 format that can normally be used to
> prevent embedding of a Type 1 font. Conceivably, one could write
> code in the font (since the font is actually a PostScript program)
> that could "look" for the Distiller and force out a message, but
> certainly no Adobe fonts do this nor are we aware of anyone else
> trying this.
>
> In a Windows NT environment, it could also be possible that what is
> installed as a Type 1 font is converted by NT into a TrueType font
> and reconverted back for output under certain bizarre circumstances.
> However, it makes no sense that the embedding restriction bits would
> be set by the OS ... haven't heard of that before


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