Subject: Inquiry About Commercial Use of Fonts Extracted from PDF for Book Publishing
Dear LilyPond Community, I hope this message finds you well. I’m reaching out for some assistance regarding the commercial use of several fonts that were embedded in a PDF document. I am in the process of publishing a book, with plans to distribute it primarily in electronic (PDF) format through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform, with a potential print version as well. To check the fonts embedded in my PDF, I used the command pdffonts to list the fonts in the document. Below is a snippet of the command’s output for your reference: HMBAUW+Emmentaler-18 Type 1C Custom yes yes no 22285 0 GHSOVS+NimbusSans-Bold Type 1C WinAnsi yes yes no 22286 0 ZVGKDS+C059-Roman Type 1C WinAnsi yes yes no 22287 0 >From this, I extracted the unique values between the first + and the first - from each line in the output. Specifically, I obtained the following unique font names: Bravura, C059, Emmentaler, CMR10, CMR6, CMR7, CMSY10, DejaVuSerif, NimbusMonoPS, NimbusSans, TexGyreCursor, TexGyreTermes, f-0-0 Could you kindly provide some guidance on whether these fonts are free for commercial use, given that I intend to sell the book on a platform like Amazon KDP? If any of these fonts require licensing for such use, please let me know what steps I should take. Lastly, I encountered an unfamiliar font name in my extraction, which appears as f-0-0. I’m unsure what this font represents or how it ended up in my PDF. If anyone has insights into this, I’d appreciate your help. Thank you for your time and support! Best regards, P
