[XeTeX] font licenses and embedding

[Mike Maxwell]

On 9/24/2010 11:37 AM, Ujjwol Lamichhane wrote:
> Maxwell,  Sorry! quite out of topic, is that Saṃskṛtā Devanāgarī font a
> ASCII hack font or Unicode based font ?

Now that you mention it, it might be--I didn't pay attention to the date 
below.  I think the Unicode Devanagari block is pretty old, but it might 
not be that old.

Anyway, I found other (Unicode) Devanagari fonts, I was just hoping 
there was a way to tell license restrictions from otfinfo (without 
firing up Font Forge, as Mike "Pomax" Kamermans suggested--I'm lazy, if 
a command line tool can give me a quick answer, I prefer it :-)).

> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:09 PM, maxwell <maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
> <mailto:maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu>> wrote:
>
>     I used XeLaTeX to create a PDF.  One of the fonts (SD-TTSurekh)
>     didn't get
>     embedded.  Presumably this is because its license doesn't allow
>     that.  But
>     how can I tell whether a given font allows embedding without running it
>     through xetex?  In particular, otfinfo doesn't seem to provide the info:
>     -----------
>      > otfinfo -i /groups/opt/share/fonts/Sanskrit/SDSR0NTT.TTF
>     Family:              SD-TTSurekh
>     Subfamily:           Normal
>     Full name:           SD-TTSurekh Normal
>     PostScript name:     SD-TTSurekh-Normal
>     Version:             1.0 Wed Nov 18 18:34:04 1998
>     Unique ID:           Alts:SD-TTSurekh Normal
>     Copyright:           ISFOC-SANSKRIT-DEVANAGARI-SUREKH-NORMAL. Copyright
>     (c) 1997-98, C-DAC, PUNE, INDIA.
>     -----------
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