Re: Embedding TTF fonts in PS files

[Alexander Gelfenbain <Alexander Gelfenbain Sun COM>]

On Jun 4, 2004, at 06:31, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 09:12:33PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > When working with the Pango code, I happened to notice that right
> > now we are typically embedding TTF font files verbatim into the
> > PS files we generate.
>
> There are two indirectly conflicting patches pending on this issue
> right now.  One variant for the PS backend does some simple
> subsettinging and uses CID fonts.  The other more extensive patch
> from sun for the pdf backend uses subsetting code from STSF.  The
> adoption of either is pending two types of response from sun

It would be more accurate to say that the PDF patch from Sun
usdes the subsetting code from OpenOffice. Indeed code
in question can be found in STSF, but it was originally
contributed to OpenOffice.


> 1) An attempt to have the pdf code use a cid/type2 approach
> 2) some licensing issues on the STSF code.
>
> My plan is to accept the PS patch for cid and conditionally accept
> the PDF changes if the licensing issues can be fixed.

What are the licensing issues?

AG

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