Thread: Legality of embedding fonts?
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Old 11-23-2009, 07:04 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
If you unsure, the best solution is to ask the font's rightsholder

My opinion, given what you've posted, is that you're allowed to embed the font in PDFs or ePubs provided the font is not easily extractable. For ePubs, this means that the fonts must be encrypted - either when DRM is applied to the ePub, or separately using the Adobe or IDPF font encryption method. (But as no reader currently supports the IDPF method, I'd suggest using the Adobe one.)
Well I won't be putting any DRM on anything...

I wonder if there is a way to double up on the fonts so I can embed some public domain fonts with the document but also make the document use my preferred fonts if they are available.

For example, I currently have some fonts on my reader's internal memory. I can access those fonts from the document without embedding them into the documents. If the fonts are not there the reader's default fonts take over. Unfortunately the default fonts on the PRS-700 don't display certain characters correctly.
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