From: D. Starner (shalesller@writeme.com)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 19:38:30 EST
> That's why I think that font design providers (Adobe, Agfa MonoType, ...)
> should agree on a common format to allow authors to distribute freely the
> documents they create with these font designs. Then it's up to them to
> cooperate with operating system vendors so that these OS will be able to
> embed licensed fonts in documents, by managing two font stores in the OS:
Of course, this requires the OS play games behind the back of the user that
aren't fundamentally possible in an open source system. You can't hand someone
a full copy of a font and then make it usuable in some situations and not
in others, except as an arbitrary rule, which doesn't work when a user has
control over his computer.
-- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Tue Dec 02 2003 - 20:33:32 EST