RE: Skyfonts

[Andrew Bernard]

Hi All,

A lot of very useful input and food for thought here. I confess I am not an
expert on the legal issues, and just now reading all the legal conditions
around SkyFonts and the Monotype Suscription makes me none the wiser.

The thing about the Monotype Library Subscription is that you get access to
use over 2000 very fine fonts for a small monthly fee, about $18.
Considering a single face in a single weight of a single family often costs
far more than this, it is a good deal, certainly for my work. But as with
Adobe Creative Cloud, they are making renters of us all and not owners.

I had assumed that pulling the fonts out of a PDF in the case of SkyFonts
amounted to reverse engineering and was therefore barred. SkyFonts does
ferret the fonts away somewhere obscurely hidden, and if your subscription
runs out the fonts are removed. This is what gave me the idea is it somehow
not right. But in reality I have no idea, the less so the more I read your
comments and look into it.

But my other objection comes more into play - that I need to try out
potentially dozens and dozens of faces, and the PDFD extraction route is a
lot harder than just specifying a font name in the source.

All your comments most appreciated. I shall ponder some more.

Andrew