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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 4 11:24:30 +0000 2008 ------- I only recently found out about this issue and I hope I can give a real world example that would be helped by implementing something like this. I work for a small company which gives courses in unix related subjects and we make our own course materials. These materials take a lot of work to make and they are long term documents, meaning they have to survive software updates and be portable to other systems (e.g. Solaris, Linux, BSD based unix systems). Portabilty would mean that the rendering of the page (in our case .odg files) must be the same, regardless of which OS is providing the fonts (we currently have an issue with Linux based X-Servers used by openoffice (2.0) clients running on solaris, don't know yet if an update to 3.0 will fix this). If a document carries its fonts embedded in the document, that factor is at least out of the way and will make the document be more self-sufficient across platforms and time. There may be other solutions to this problem that I'm not (yet) aware of, but embedding the fonts would seem like an essential feature for portability of documents. As for the legal issues, I would place them firmly at the user's side. The user alone is responsible for the legality of embedding the fonts, the software may, of course, assist the user to determine the legality. /Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
