[OS X TeX] PDF with Lucida Bright
Adrian Heathcote
adrian.heathcote at philosophy.usyd.edu.au
Sat Nov 16 05:05:13 CET 2002
>
> I think its possible to extract the font from the pdf file with the
> correct tools and that for this reason many companies require you to
> subset the fonts when publishing electronically. So all that is in the
> pdf file are the exact fonts that you need.
This raises the question of what the default behaviour of pdftex is.
But also---I don't know whether this is a matter with any practical
consequences. After all if the article or book is large enough,
subsetting will give you the entire font anyway. (Recall the way
subsetting works: if your total gylph usage is above some set amount
then 100% of the font is embedded.) Also, this is lawyer-driven
nonsense. You've paid for the font and fair usage. If you can't use it
in an article or pdf what have you actually bought. I doubt if there is
a single case of someone being prosecuted for distributing a pdf with
100% subsetting. And if it were tried I doubt if the companies would
win.
Adrian Heathcote
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