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From: batcheldern@hannah.enet.dec.com (Ned Batchelder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Worry: Using Exotic Fonts
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Date: 28 Feb 90 21:24:42 GMT
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>                                   Let's say I use Lotus Manuscript to
> write a book.  I then get a publishing house to agree to publish this
> work.  What happens if there is a reason for using a very specific font
> for very specific things in the book.  A font that the publishing house
> does not have and can't (won't, etc) buy because this is the only time
> they would ever use it.  Does all this mean that I can't send a PS fiel
> to the publisher for printing by them because it would have the font
> included as part of the PS file that I generated through Lotus
> Manuscript??

Let's put it this way: if you for some reason wanted to send them not
the PS file, but the Manuscript file, and they didn't have Manuscript,
and wouldn't buy it because they were only going to use it this once to
print your document, could you legally give them a copy to use? Of course not.

People are used to the idea that software is licensed to a particular
environment, and accept the limitations that implies. Fonts are no
different. Read your license agreement.

As to what to do about the problem of wanting to use whizzy fonts, but
not knowing if people will be able to print the document: I don't know.
It's a toughie.

Ned Batchelder, Digital Equipment Corp., BatchelderN@Hannah.enet.DEC.com