The font properties say "Installable embedding allowed" so I'm not sure
why it won't embed.
The license field has a bunch of CJK that I can't read and then this:
Nikosh font developed by The Election Commission of Bangladesh. Latin
glyphs Incorporated are from modified DejaVu font project's DejaVu Serif.
Bangla Glyps design by: Jowad Kazi
Core Developers: Jowad Kazi, Omi Azad, Mozammel Sarker
NikoshBangla font is being Released under Creative Common License (CCL).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/NikoshRegularJowadKazi,OmiAzad:
NikoshLight: 2008NikoshVersion 001.000NikoshJowad Kazi, Omi AzadJowad
Hamid Kazi. Bangladesh Election Commission Secretariat.This Font
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...it quits at this point. The Description is more complete and says:
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Subject: [XeTeX] font license
From: maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu>
To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex@tug.org>
Date: 9/3/2014 2:31 PM
On to the next problem. We're typesetting a Bangla grammar, and the
chosen font for the Bengali script is the Nikosh font. This ttf font
was reportedly developed by the government of Bangladesh, and is
freely downloadable from their website, e.g.
http://www.bpdb.gov.bd/bpdb/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=239
http://www.ecs.gov.bd/English/QLTemplate1.php?Parameter_QLSCat_ID=68&ByDate=0&Year=
Now that I have the xetex -output-driver parameter on the correct side
of the input file name on the command line (see my previous
thread...), xdvipdfmx is refusing to embed this Nikosh font in the PDF
unless I use the -E (embed regardless of license) parameter. I'm not
happy about doing that.
I have been googling around for the Nikosh font license (no luck--some
sites claim it's freely available, but that probably doesn't mean
anything), and also for some app that would let me read the license
restrictions which I assume are embedded somehow in the .ttf file
(otherwise how could xdvipdfmx find it?). Tried fc-scan, FontForge,
'strings Nikosh.ttf | grep -i fstype', etc.
I understand that some font creation tools default to non-embeddable
font licenses, and that some developers may not realize that (or not
realize the implications).
How do I find the exact license restrictions on a truetype font?
Mike Maxwell
University of Maryland
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