Font Embedding Restrictions

[posterized_child]

Is there a way to tell if a font has embedding restrictions before you try to make a pdf.

(assuming you don't have a copy of the licensing agreement from the font supplier)

[David]

I don't think you can tell just by looking, or "get info". I have fontographer and if I drop a restricted font on it, it won't open up like a normal unrestricted font would.

Here's a read about font restrictions from Adobe on it:

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

[prepress_brillance_43]

here's some more reading on it...

http://partners.adobe.com/public/dev...ntPolicies.pdf

check out pg. 18 you may be able to open and tell by looking at font coding....

this gets a bit over my head though..

[MarkDouma]

What platform and what OS?

If you're in OS X 10.4, open System Profiler, select "Fonts" in the Software section, select a font in the list, and look at the "Copy Protected" and "Embeddable" values for the font in question.

Hope this helps....

[pcmodem]

Type some text with the font using InDesign, then do a Preflight. It should show you fonts that are protected.

[posterized_child]

What platform and what OS?

If you're in OS X 10.4, open System Profiler, select "Fonts" in the Software section, select a font in the list, and look at the "Copy Protected" and "Embeddable" values for the font in question

We're still using OSX 10.3, but I think that method will work pretty good after we upgrade. Thanks.

Here's a read about font restrictions from Adobe on it:

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

I read that part about opening .afm files in a text editing program and tried it out. That was so cool! I tried opening other font files with TextEdit, but all I got was a blank window.