> What do you mean by "using them as a starting point to build a new font?" If > you mean that you will look at the glyphs to have shape ideas, I think that > is find. If you mean extract the shapes from the PDF to put them in your > font with little modifications, I highly doubt it. The Unicode charts are > made with fonts produced by vendors who sell them.
I meant to extract the shapes and put them in my own font. The only modifications would be those needed to wrap the shapes in the new format (say a ttf file). And you are right, font vendors would not be at all happy with that. Anyhow, I was concerned about the way they wrote the "terms of use". Commercial logic seems to indicate that I cannot do it but maybe the license allows me to. That is why I wanted to ask here. I think there should be a (at least low quality) free unicode font made available by the Unicode Consortium. Well, if that approach does not work I guess I am going to try to merge existing free fonts. I am having a hard time finding true type free fonts with a good Unicode coverage and acceptable quality. Eduardo.
