Thread: Fonts - Legal Issues
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Old 08-05-2009, 03:42 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
If you are creating or hosting a non-commercial ePub then there are relatively few fonts that can be embedded without permission. Even the so called Core fonts for the Web probably should not be be embedded in an ePub. They are "core" because they are almost universally available on desktop computers, but their EULA makes it difficult to legally include them in an ePub.
There is no way to embed fonts in an ePub file in the usual technical sense of the word. If there were, it would make things simpler, as embedding (as one would embed into a PDF file, in a way that does not make it possible for the recipient of said file to recover the original .ttf) is permitted by many fonts. Adobe even states:

http://www.adobe.com/type/embedding.html

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All fonts produced by Adobe Systems can be embedded in Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) files, as well as other types of files.
However, this does not cover the "file inclusion" sort of embedding ePub supports.

But despite this small nitpick about your choice of words, doubtless you are right. Do people mostly use free (as in both gratis and libre) fonts to get around this?

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