RE: Skyfonts

[Andrew Bernard]

Hi Alexander,

The Skyfonts plot clarifies. Indeed, thanks to you I have been able to discover 
that the Skyfonts downloads are located here in Windows 10:

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Monotype\skyfonts-myfonts

and

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Monotype\skyfonts-google

and so on - you can subscribe to multiple services.

Since I have a Monotype subscription the name is in the path, but I think you 
can have SkyFonts from elsewhere, for Google fonts for example.

Furthermore the folder holds a normal OpenType font file, not encrypted, no 
name mangling, perfectly able to be copied. I suppose one can say they are 
'slightly hidden'.


Andrew




-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Kobel
Sent: Monday, 7 November 2016 11:53 PM
To: Andrew Bernard <address@hidden>; address@hidden
Subject: Re: Skyfonts

For practical matters: I'm not aware of any tool that offers convenient 
extraction of PDF-embedded fonts, so I second your doubts about the 
practicality there. But googling for a few seconds led me to 
http://www.advogato.org/person/yosch/diary/150.html, where I read between the 
lines that the synchronized fonts are stored in 
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\skyfont-google\ on Windows. The folder 
should be hidden, so you have to check the option to reveal hidden files. Since 
I have no access to Skyfonts and/or a Windows machine, I can't verify - but 
maybe you can. I assume the fonts there are not encrypted, since they seem to 
be usable in default applications, but that maybe their names are mangled?