A Sunday, June 05, 2011, Josh Richardson va escriure: > The current systems appears to try and use system-available fonts as > approximations for whatever font is in the PDF. For pdftohtml, I am > considering adding in a preferred behavior: > > 1. Extract the original font from the PDF > 2. Create a font file for that font > 3. Reference the font file, using "@font-face" in the generated HTML. > > This should give us an exact representation of the original font in the > PDF, though it will only work with modern browsers, since earlier browsers > don't support "@font-face". For IE, I'll have to convert the font to EOT, > and for the others I'll probably use regular OpenType (not TrueType) > format. > > If I only use the extracted font to display the original document in it's > original form, and not to draw additional glyphs in any document, I > believe I'll be in compliance with "fair use" and digital copyright rules > for the font.
Copyright law can be funny, but given we are not doing anything, it is the user that does it, i don't think we should be worried at all. Albert > > Does anyone see an issue with the approach, or have any advice? For > instance, I'm not sure how much luck I'll have with converting especially > Type 3 fonts to OpenType/EOT. > > Thanks, --josh _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
