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Subject:Font Licenses From:"Roz Ault, Information Technology, X 377" <AULT -at- FAXON -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 10 Nov 1997 09:45:58 -0400
Re this comment:
>Hang on a minute... fonts are copyrighted. You typically buy a license for
>font X on one machine. Copying to your new PC from a Mac or even from
>another PC may be in violation of the copyright.
I'm not sure what the rules are for TrueType fonts. However, for Adobe's
PostScript fonts you need to license a copy for each PostScript printer
you are using, not each computer. At least, this is what Adobe told a
graphic designer for our company a few years ago.
The bitmap (screen) versions of the PostScript fonts may be freely
distributed, although they won't print correctly without the PostScript
(printer) part.
Somewhat peripherally related, for a good article about onscreen
typography see:
