I don't know enough about either PDFs, or the law, to say if this holds water or not, but it is at least one way that the two scenarios could be different. So there's no way for OOo to be compatible with Office files that use embedded fonts without licensing the tech, and that isn't going to happen-at least not for OOo.Īnother point was made there, that PDFs embed only a subset of the font, which is a very different situation legally, since the end user can't extract a complete font from the PDF. I didn't read all the comments on the issue, but one thing that was mentioned is that MS uses a patented font embedding system, which MS licenses from Agfa. As long as the embedding flag in the font is respected, that should be sufficient. I also don't understand why OpenOffice can embed fonts for publishing to PDF, but not for other purposes.
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