We have been using this foreign langage font for many years in MS word.

Now that we want to publish the books, the printer has asked us to make a
PDF file, most of the fonts are ok to embed with the Adobe Distiller, but
two fonts that we used have a lock as copyright on them. Distiller is not
letting us to embed the font.

How can we clear the lock and embed the font in the PDF file for the
printer???

The person that made the font for us is not arownd, can someone help?

Thanks,
Berjam@gmail.com

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, BJ wrote:

> We have been using this foreign langage font for many years in MS word.

Oh, oh, I suspect evil.
Tell us more about this "foreign langage font"!

BJ wrote:
> We have been using this foreign langage font for many years in MS word.
> 
> Now that we want to publish the books, the printer has asked us to make a
> PDF file, most of the fonts are ok to embed with the Adobe Distiller, but
> two fonts that we used have a lock as copyright on them. Distiller is not
> letting us to embed the font.
> 
> How can we clear the lock and embed the font in the PDF file for the
> printer???
> 
> The person that made the font for us is not arownd, can someone help?
> 
> Thanks,
> Berjam@gmail.com
> 
> 
> 

Assuming from your comment that this was a font made specifically for 
you, the creator probably used Fontographer and its "no embedding" 
default.

If, on the other hand, it's a commercial font, you would be violating 
the terms of your license

You could post the font in alt.binaries.fonts and someone would fix it 
for you, or, if it's a truetype font, this utility will clear the 
embedding restriction:

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/twm/embed/

(Unless you're on a Mac)

  - Character