Lynne Anne Rhodes wrote:
I do not think there is any law anywhere in the world that restricts the unlimited distribution of pdf files containing any font that the generating program inserted.
Fonts are copyright-protected nearly all over the world and even if you cannot copyright a "typeface" in the US you can copyright the implementation of the typeface on a computer system. That's the reason Microsoft did not just incorporate the Adobe "Helvetica" font in Windows, but made a tracing of that font called "Arial". See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface#Legal_aspects_of_typefaces Embedding (the whole or a part) a font in a pdf file and distributing the pdf is legally the same as distributing the font (or parts of it). You can easily recover embedded fonts from pdfs with appropriate tools that ignore the "copy bits". Some companies (not all) allow to embed their fonts in documents, but you must buy a license for the font first. Now BB writes on the front of his book "this book is in the public domain", but it contains copyrighted material. He will get himself in trouble (which I don't give a damn) but he will also get in trouble those people who further distribute his "public domain" book. I don't believe he will financially backup the lawsuits those people may get into because of his carelessness.
As an afterword - we in polite society do not imply in a public forum that somebody is doing something improper without firm proof.
The proof is there for everybody to download. Open the file in Acrobat and type "Ctrl+Alt+f". Its better to warn people than to get them in trouble with bogus legal advice. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org