Le 02/07/2016 20:20, Steve Litt a écrit :
Hi all,
The second edition of my book "Manager's Guide to Technical
Troubleshooting" will ship as a 3.5" x 5.5" PDF instead of printed
paper. As you can imagine, for any reasonable facimile of decent
reading, I must embed the fonts used. However, most fonts that are
"free" to insert in a document are not free to insert in a document
that is distributed, because in that case you're giving away the font's
source, not just its appearance.
Professional font licences usually allow the distribution of the
necessary subset of the font along with documents, as XeTeX does. Also,
the SIL Open Font license states: "The requirement for fonts to remain
under this license does not apply to any document created using the Font
Software". I am surprised that other open-source font licences do not
appear to include similar exceptions.
As far as I know, the Liberation fonts don't have this problem, but
then again, they're not especially readable. What other fonts are
completely free to give away embedded inside a document you sell?
Adobe's free fonts are of the highest quality and are under the SIL Open
Source license. I eagerly await the release of the italics of Adobe's
Source Serif Pro. If not for this issue, I would recommend that you have
a look.
There are forums on the internet where people who love to argue about
typography meet, and they love to answer these kind of questions.
