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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Worry: Using Exotic Fonts
Message-ID: <1990Feb21.174332.17973@intercon.com>
Date: 21 Feb 90 17:43:32 GMT
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Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Sterling, VA
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This touches on an interesting point.  Currently, if you want to send a
PostScript document to someone else, you pretty much have to either stick
to Times, Helvetica, Courier, & Symbol or make sure they have the fonts you
use, since it violates Adobe's font license to include the fonts themselves
into the document.  This is kind of annoying.  For example, our corporate
logo includes the word "InterCon" in tightly tracked Univers 75 Oblique.

As I read Adobe's font license, I can't distribute an electronic document that
contains our logo (and thus that font), even if I hack the font so that the
only letters in it are the ones in the word "InterCon" (which, in fact, I have
done--it brings the EPSF file down to about 5K from 37.5K).

From a conventional typsetting perspective, Adobe's terms make plenty of
sense, but as documents start being distributed more and more in electronic
form, they start getting in the way of a lot of uses for PostScript.

--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation

"Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view."
	--Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Return of the Jedi"