Thread: Font Embedding?
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Old 09-29-2012, 08:20 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by teh603 View Post
What's wrong with just embedding the original font file? One of my favorites only weighs in around 140k. That isn't very big.
1.) a professional full utf-8 glyph range font can be several megs.

2.) in some cases the font's license would forbid complete inclusion, where including only the characters used; just as it is done when you include fonts in PDFs would be covered by the license.
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