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• • February 13, 2013 at 3:54 pm #64151
    dufois

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    Suddenly, I have clients deciding not to print their documents but to simply post them online as PDFs (sometimes LONG text-heavy ones, sometimes shorter, more highly designed ones). I know that Hoefler Frere Jones, for example, requires an additional license to produce these kind of documents – “public PDFs” as opposed to workflow PDFs – and I've noticed that some of my EULAs for other fonts just specifiy that public PDFs must be saved such that readers can't copy or extract material from them. Does anyone know if HFJ's position is unusual/what's typical? I'm working in InD CS6. Many thanks for any thoughts!

  • February 14, 2013 at 10:57 am #64159
    David Blatner

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    You're right that there are font licensing issues with PDFs, EPUBs, and all other digital files. I believe you can get around them by converting everything to outlines (do it the right way: https://creativepro.com/con…..pdated.php )

    But most fonts (certainly all adobe fonts) can be embedded properly in these digital files. I've never understood the concerns of font foundries that don't allow this.

  • February 14, 2013 at 11:04 am #64160
    dufois

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    Thank you, David! Will read your convert to outline methods but one of these docs will be a few hundred pages long. Thinking I'll stick with Adobe fonts for that one for sure.

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