[XeTeX] font licenses and embedding
Mike Maxwell
maxwell at umiacs.umd.edu
Sat Sep 25 04:27:29 CEST 2010
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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