Originally Posted by
Hitch
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But "no subsetting" feels ill-advised for any foundry.
ETA: P.S.: do we know if he's talking about entirely, or only for web-usage for the WOFFs, etc.? ???
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I've no idea. But as you say, "ill-advised", fits more than one foundry's licensing terms. I'm somewhat unwilling to accept that there's an existential threat to font designers and sellers were they to allow font embedding on equal terms for both PDFs and Ebooks. I know that you can unzip EPUBs, and that Kindle books before KFX could be unpacked. But I never even thought about extracting fonts from a PDF. So I had a look to see if it's actually possible.
It is. All you need is one of the very first Google results if you're so inclined. One is a stackoverflow page with more than half a dozen ways of getting fonts out of PDF files. Admittedly most are somewhat elaborate, but extract them you can.
Checking my PC I also realised that I wouldn't even have to install any software. Most of the stuff you need is standard Linux fare and just requires a little command line typing, something I do all day (I started my computing career with UNIX III, followed by SunOS, Solaris and since about '97 or '98 Linux in various flavours).
Klaus