Bonjour Jon, Thanks for your answer. I see the legal point, no problem for that, I was wondering if it's technical possible. I only use free fonts for my works anyway...
Google just is fine in France, I didn't find the right words to look for, that's all... :-) (I looked for pdf font extract and had no good findings). So many thanks for the answer! Martin Le samedi 3 f?vrier 2007 ? 00:35:11, vous ?criviez : j> Hi Martin - j> The legal part of font extraction. j> Most font licenses doesn't allow extraction from pd files. j> PD or free fonts may be extracted, but I can't see the point, because j> they are freely available. j> The technical part. j> A lot of font licences (and most of newer licences) doesn't allow full j> embedding, only subsetting. j> In this case trying to extract the font will fail, because only used j> characters are embedded. j> All I know is that kerning and hinting information will always be lost, j> though I may be wrong. j> If your need is to extract only one or a few graphics from a font file j> embedded in a pdf j> you could always use a pdf editor to open and copy the paths. j> Knowing this you might find further information here (covering j> extraction of ps1 fonts): j> http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/pdfextract.html j> Wasn't so hard to find with google {pdf font file extraction} or does j> google france block this? j> Would be an interesting fact 'bout google policies. j> Just keep in mind that font extraction might in most cases be j> not-so-very-legal - depends j> very much on the laws of your local lobbyists. j> Jon j> Am 02.02.2007 um 21:15 schrieb mamem at gmx.net: >> Once I have seen a kind of How-To on Internet, but cannot find it. >> >> It seems to be possible, if I have the rights (passwords?) of the >> file? >> >> The question is still open... >> >> Thanks, >> Martin
