[reportlab-users] Handling TrueType fonts not allowing subsetting

[Dinu Gherman]

Andy Robinson:


> We have seen many of them.  It's a designer's choice and if they set

> that flag, we respect it.  I think it is probably more about the

> rights to embed the font than to subset it; they want it to be used

> for printed materials but not "distributed" further.


Oh, is that analogous to some famous artists who erect a sculpture in
a public place and try to sue people for taking photographs of it? ;-)

BTW, there seem to be institutions requiring entire fonts to be embedded
in a PDF (probably for data archeology reasons), if I understand this 
kind of article correctly:

  http://blogs.adobe.com/acrobatforlifesciences/2008/09/reembedding_fonts_in_a_pdf/


> Perhaps you should only stick to Open Source fonts where you have the

> right to change the glyphs as well as delete them ;-)


For what it's worth, I've recently discovered a collection of around 
800 fonts here (what is probably named Google webfonts), with varying 
licenses:

  https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/

There seem to be a few quite nice ones (also as TTF)...

Cheers,

Dinu