--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "i18n@..." <i18n@...> wrote:

>
> Nicholas Bodley wrote:
>
> >*I've read of embedded fonts; presumably those are part of a given
> >document.
> >
>
> Usually they are part of the document in the way a garage is a part of
> the house. It is pretty separable and loosely attached.
>
> >Only some are designated to be
> >embeddable; doing so with others violates copyright, I think.
> >
> >
> Sounds like fair use to me, which is an affirmative defense against
> copyright claims. Now, whether or not a font is *licensed* for a
> particular use may matter, and may be germane in a specific case. That
> is not a copyright issue at all. But IANAL so YMMV.

The licensing terms are supposed to be stored in the fsType field of
the OS/2 table of a TrueType or OpenType fault, so many applications
may automatically respect these conditions. See
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/os2.htm for details.

Curiously, however, embedded fonts don't work in MS applications under
Windows if you don't have the right to install fonts. This seems a
bit odd, as I was under the impression that they embedded successfully
in PDF.

Richard.