At 10:33 PM 7/25/2005, sreeram ramesh kumar wrote:
The fonts that dont have embedding rights.
If they don't have embedding rights, then they can't be
embedded into a PDF ;). So checking the PDF won't do you any good - will it?
That said, let me note a few things.
First, there are two ways to protect a font from embedding - legally
and technically.
The former involves a legal agreement between the parties (aka an End
User License Agreement (EULA) or ShrinkWrap Agreement). In this
case, there is (obviously) NO WAY to determine that a font's
embedding rights were violated - or even exist one way or the other.
The latter is ONLY for TrueType and (some types of) OpenType fonts
and involves the setting of a flag inside a table in the font
data. Acrobat 4 and all 3rd party PDF tools (that I know of!)
respect this flag and won't embed a font with the flag set. It would
be possible to extract the embedded font data and see if the flag is
set - but I suspect it would be a waste of time. Also, for all the
Type 1 fonts out there - no such flag exists.
All of that said - why do you want to do this?
Leonard
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