: Usage of paid fonts I've recently bought the Karnak Pro font for usage on a freelancer flyer for a company, but after looking on the web I've found that there are some constrains on using
I've recently bought the Karnak Pro font for usage on a freelancer flyer for a company, but after looking on the web I've found that there are some constrains on using fonts for that type of thing.
I had read the EULA but i could not understand it. It says:
Permitted Uses. This product is licensed only to the Licensee, and may
not be transferred, sold, leased, rented, lent, shared, assigned,
distributed or sublicensed to any third party at any time without the
prior written consent of ITF.
Licensee may not modify, make error corrections, enhance, translate, adapt, alter, decompile, disassemble, decrypt, reverse
engineer, change or alter the embedding bits, the font name, copyright
or trademark information, nor any other proprietary or legal notices
contained in the font software, nor seek to discover the source code
of the font software, convert into another font format, create
bitmaps, create Web fonts with third party tools or otherwise, add or
subtract any glyphs, symbols or accents, or any other derivative works
based on the electronic font software in this product in whole or in
part, whatsoever.
Licensee may not supply, directly or indirectly, any ITF font software to any other firm, business, third party or individual for
any type of modifications or updates whatsoever. If the Licensee needs
to modify or update the font software in anyway in the future, ITF
(Licensor) solely will perform and invoice this additional work at its
normal prevailing rates.
Embedding Restrictions. PDF embedding of the font software into PDF documents is only permitted in a secured read-only mode that
allows only printing and viewing, and prohibits editing, selecting,
enhancing or modifying the text by means of obfuscation or encryption.
Licensee must ensure that recipients of PDF documents cannot extract
the ITF font software from such PDF documents or use the embedded font
software for editing purposes or for the creation of new documents.
So can i use this for my freelancer projects like sending PDFs with the partial fonts embedded and send static images without problem?
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From what I understand by reading their license, you should add security to your PDF so they cannot be edited. The funny thing is: Usually, if someone edits your text in your PDF and doesn't have THAT font installed, the software will change that part of the text for another default font... So what they probably want is that you don't create some kind of dynamic templates that can be filled using their font and resell them. That would probably require you to buy another type of license. But for print-ready files it's probably ok.
You're also supposed to protect your PDF so the font cannot be extracted; now, maybe it's just me but I don't know any method to extract a full font from a PDF to use it on another software. One way to protect yourself from this is to simply add security on your PDF or even better, vectorize the text. But keep in mind that you can put all the security or password you want on a PDF, if someone somewhere wants to get something out of it, a motivated designer could always find a way to bypass the security.
You should be alright if you use rasterized formats since the text cannot be edited on these files if they're flattened.
And regarding the 3 first paragraphs of the license, it's simple: Don't send the font to anyone, don't resell it as part of template or alone, and don't modify it with any software (modifying the font using a font creation software or converting it from Postscript to TrueType for example.)
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