Most font developers restrict rights on their fonts. Obtaining a legal copy of a font only grants the user the right to use the font; not to make changes.
Actually, a lot of font developers -- probably the majority -- explicitly allow modifications for personal use. What they do not generally permit is distribution of modified fonts, and, of course, they also require that you have a valid license for the original font for every installation of the modified font. If in doubt, check your license agreement.
Microsoft do not allow modification of their fonts because they view the fonts as system components.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Theory set out to produce texts that could not be processed successfully
by the commonsensical assumptions that ordinary language puts into play.
There are texts of theory that resist meaning so powerfully ... that the
very process of failing to comprehend the text is part of what it has to offer
- Lentricchia & Mclaughlin, _Critical terms for literary study_
