Hi All, A lot of very useful input and food for thought here. I confess I am not an expert on the legal issues, and just now reading all the legal conditions around SkyFonts and the Monotype Suscription makes me none the wiser.
The thing about the Monotype Library Subscription is that you get access to use over 2000 very fine fonts for a small monthly fee, about $18. Considering a single face in a single weight of a single family often costs far more than this, it is a good deal, certainly for my work. But as with Adobe Creative Cloud, they are making renters of us all and not owners. I had assumed that pulling the fonts out of a PDF in the case of SkyFonts amounted to reverse engineering and was therefore barred. SkyFonts does ferret the fonts away somewhere obscurely hidden, and if your subscription runs out the fonts are removed. This is what gave me the idea is it somehow not right. But in reality I have no idea, the less so the more I read your comments and look into it. But my other objection comes more into play - that I need to try out potentially dozens and dozens of faces, and the PDFD extraction route is a lot harder than just specifying a font name in the source. All your comments most appreciated. I shall ponder some more. Andrew _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
