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Originally Posted by user_none
No. Even mangled you're still distributing the font.
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Well, yes and no. Most font licenses do include the right to embed a subset of the font so long as it is not trivially extractable. Whether the mangling/encryption schemes currently available really qualify or not is dubious, IMO, but then again, all DRM is dubious by nature, so I would say that it is not really any more dubious than embedding a font subset in a PDF.
However, as you said, whether you can do this or not depends on your license.
Whether readers can unmangle the fonts or not likely depends on the reader and on whether you use Adobe's
proprietary standard or the
official one, but yes, there probably are readers that will barf.