Toby Thain wrote:
>
> On 21-Jul-08, at 2:50 AM, Richard Elling wrote:
>
>> Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote:
>>> Evince likes to fuzz a number of PDFs. I too can't seem to nail the
>>> problems, but it seems that a number of PDFs from SUN have this
>>> problem (very wrong character spacing), and they all have been
>>> generated using FrameMaker. PDFs generated using TeX/LaTeX are
>>> *usually* ok.
>>>
>>
>> Welcome to font hell :-(. For many years, Sun documentation was written
>> in the Palatino font, which is (or was?) not freely available.
>
> I have to correct you here - Palatino was a built-in font of the Apple
> LaserWriter Plus (1986), and one of the very first Adobe Font packages
> for PostScript, which means it has been almost as "freely available"
> for printing and screen rendering as Times New Roman. In particular,
> it has been a part of the core Macintosh screen fonts since System 7,
> if not earlier (TrueType with identical metrics to the PostScript
> font). FrameMaker's choice of PostScript Palatino was natural during
> the 1990s since Sun could be assured it was available to all
> PostScript laser printers and imagesetters. (Apple's documentation of
> the period also used Palatino and ITC Avant Garde).
IANAL, but I think you will find that the hardware vendors have paid
a license fee.
http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/legal/pdfs/FontFAQ.pdf
Currently, some of the licensing is undergoing changes. I'm not
involved in that projects, but you might get some sense of the
complexity with this thread:
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2008-February/012552.html
If you thought open source software was a legal minefield, fonts are
even more Byzantine...
-- richard
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