From: Christopher John Fynn (cfynn@gmx.net)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 21:28:10 EST
"Philippe Verdy" <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 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:
> one for reusable licensed fonts that can be used and selected to create
> documents, one that get used as embeddable fonts (containing a signed copy
> of the license) when these documents are exported for publishing: the
> embedded fonts in the document then contain a signature of the license used
> by authors, and this signature cannot be removed from embedded fonts, nor
> detached from the document to create another document, without making the
> embedded font undecypherable/unusable.
This may be of relevance:
http://www.aiim.org/documents/standards/ISO_19005_(E).pdf
- Chris
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