Using a non-free font in my commercial desktop app?

Hello,
I'm planning to use the font KaiTi for my desktop application, it's a Chinese font shipped with Windows 7 (possibly XP and Vista too). The font file itself will not be distributed or included in the app, however I'm going to rasterize the characters and include this raster version in the app. The user can then look at the character and see how the strokes are drawn.
Do you think the KaiTi license allow me to do so?
Laurent

It's not an Adobe font. We don't have the text of the license to be able to give you an opinion. What does the license say? If you have questions about a font distributed by Microsoft with Windows, why don't you simply contact Microsoft and ask them?
- Dov

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After a small discussion in a seperate thread, it was apparent that there may be a need for a list of places where you can get free fonts.
Please contribute information that would help the community. It could be advice on where to get good free fonts or even advice on places that should be avoided because of bad quality fonts, etc. Also, feel free to suggest some places that may have inexpensive paid fonts that are high quality as well.
Obviously, avoid suggesting pirated fonts or where to get them. Keep this discussion "legit".

There's a plethora of free fonts out there, not all of them are great, but hey, they're free.
Smashing magazine put together a list of 40 free fonts that are great for GOOD design:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/08/40-excellent-freefonts-for-professional-design/
However, if you want to pick and choose your own, here is a comprehensive list of free font sites:
Dafont – One of the most popular sources of free fonts
Urban Fonts – More than 8,000 fonts to choose from
Better Fonts – Over 10,000 free fonts
Fawnt – Over 9,000 fonts
RFonts.com – Hundreds of fonts categorized by style
FlashDen – Commercial pixel fonts
Font Freak – 5,000 free fonts and 25,000 commercial fonts
High Fonts – 3,000 free fonts, 25,000 commercial fonts
Better Fonts – 10,000 fonts and counting
Abstract Fonts – 10,000 free fonts
Daily Free Fonts – Thousands of free fonts
SearchFreeFonts – 13,000 free fonts and more that can be purchased
1001 Free Fonts – Nicely categorized
1001 Fonts – Free fonts by category
File Cart – Over 9,000 free fonts
Acid Fonts – Categorized free fonts
Absolute Fonts – Almost 7,000 fonts
The Font Pool – Over 40,000 fonts
Type Now – Currently 6,846 fonts
SimplyTheBestFonts – A lot of different categories to choose from
Fonts 500 – The web’s top 500 free fonts
FontCubes – Over 9,000 free fonts
Free Mac Fonts – Over 6,000 fonts for Macs
WebPagePublicity – Over 6,000 fonts
Phil’s Fonts – Commercial
Fonts for Flash – Commercial
Font Garden – 1,500 fonts not very well categorized
2200FreeFonts – Not categorized
ShowFont – 10,000 fonts only in alphabetical order
GetFreeFonts.info – 2,500 fonts in alphabetical order
Creamundo – Almost 10,000 fonts, but difficult to find what you want
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Can i use free VMWare ESXi for commercial use.?

Hi,
I know that this question have come up before but I can't find any
definitive answers. Can i use free VMWare ESXi for commercial use. We
would like to host
several customers on a machine running VMWare ESXi. I want a clear answer so we can do it without any further discussion.
Thank you all in advance,
LNN

If you plan on renting out a VM, then you need to look at the hosting programs - http://www.vmware.com/solutions/hosting/index.html. The base EULA for ESX and ESXi do not allow for the rental of VMs but I believe it may be possible to get an exemption to that.
http://communities.vmware.com/message/1016993#1016993
VMware grants you a nonexclusive, non-transferable license, without rights to sublicense, to install or have installed a single instance of the Software and each Licensed Additional Module on a single Server, unless permitted to have multiple instances on a single Server or to have multiple instances on multiple Servers by the payment of applicable license fees (whether such fees are based on a per Processor, a per Virtual Machine, a per user or any other VMware approved licensing model); (ii) use the Software and each Licensed Additional Module solely for information processing and computing purposes, including the hosting of computer application-based services from a Virtual Machine and provision of such services via an internal or external network, provided such services may not consist of services to a third party that provide primarily computing or processing power (such as utility computing or grid computing) or any computer application-based service that is traded, rented, leased or sold on a Virtual Machine basis; and (iii) use and reproduce the VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client Software or VMware WebAccess (in object code form only) for the purposes of installation and operation on an unlimited number of your own internal computers or terminals solely for the purpose of accessing the Server on which the Software is installed.

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This is actually good stuff and well written but I hesitate to advise people to use either the "oven trick" or really even the heat gun method as both are notriously short-lived even if they appear effective. Your far better bet is to send the board in to one of the vendors on the internet who are set up to do a proper reball. Even those fixes are good for maybe 12-18 mos. But again, you get a high grade for spelling it out.

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I'll looking into setting up in-browser editing so allow others to update the site without me.
However, the site uses non-web-safe fonts from my computer's font library. Can they update text that uses non-web-safe fonts that they might not own on their computers?
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Hi Brad.
Thanks for your help!
So, just to clarify...
Even though my website uses a non-web-safe font throughout, it can still be edited in browser mode? (My concern is your mention of "editable region" as my text is saved as an image rather than as text due to the fact the font is a non-web-safe font - does this matter?)
And lastly, you're saying even though the font won't be installed on the user's own font library, it can still recreate the edited text in the existing font? This seems surprising, but pretty amazing if true?
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Hello everyone.
I need some SERIOUS help so any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm currently in the process of Producing a video game which is using Minion Pro (Bold and Medium). I've been trying to call anyone and everyone at Adobe to figure out what I need to do to license this particular font for my game but after three weeks I still don't have an answer.
That said, I've come to understand that if I've bought a copy of Adobe Suite (which includes the Minion Pro font) the license allows me to use the font commercially. Meaning, I can legally use the Minion Pro font in my game.
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Help please!

Hey everyone. A bit more info...
The font displayed is a set of bitmaps created from the TrueType font. No vector definition is included in the executable.
Those bitmap images are used to display static text (ie, the text is displayed as it is in the text database, no text is created during the game). With the sole exception of numbers which are used for counters.
All this said, what do I do? I've tried contacting anyone and everyone at Adobe but no one seems to have an answer for me. The font is to appear in a game and I need to figure out ASAP what I need to do to make sure I'm in the clear legally.
As mentioned in my earlier post, I have a copy of Adobe Creative Suite (which includes Minion Pro). Does having the Suite license mean I can use this font in my video game commercially with the information provided above (in bold) in mind?

Does buying a font give full commercial rights, and will I still be able to use it if I cancel my Adobe CC/Photoshop subscription?

I'm thinking of buying a font that I found initially on typekit. Will buying that font allow me to use that font for commercial work, and will I have access to it if I ever cancel my Adobe subscription?
Thanks.

Hello,
If you purchase a font license outside of Typekit, that license dictates how you are allowed to use the font software. Adobe’s standard font EULA allows commercial use, but another font vendor’s license might not.
> will I have access to it if I ever cancel my Adobe subscription?
The perpetual font license purchase is unrelated to your Creative Cloud subscription status. You will be able to use the purchased font(s) for as long as the license allows, whether or not you continue to subscribe to Creative Cloud.
I hope that this helps; let me know if you have any other questions here or at [email protected]!
Best,
-- liz

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I would like to (for example) use MS Arial without embedding it. I can do this just fine if I use the Arial internal CIDs with /Encoding /Identity-H, but that is not what I want to do - I want to use /Encoding 123 0 R to refer to a CMap so that I can use Unicode code points in my text like this: (^@H^@e^@l^@l^@o^@ ^@W^@o^@r^@l^@d^@!)Tj I have the CMap working perfectly if I embed the font. However, if I do not embed the font, I get an error saying that Acrobat "Cannot find or create" the font. As noted above, the external font works OK if I use /Identity-H instead of my CMap. Is it simply not possible to use a CMap with an external font, or am I missing some vital step? Here's a simplified excerpt from my PDF document: <code> 100 0 obj << /Type /Font /Subtype /Type0 /BaseFont /Arial,Bold /DescendantFonts [ 101 0 R ] /Encoding 200 0 R %/Encoding /Identity-H /ToUnicode /Identity-H >> endobj 101 0 obj << /Type /Font /Subtype /CIDFontType2 /BaseFont /Arial,Bold /Encoding 11 0 R /FontDescriptor 102 0 R /CIDSystemInfo << /Registry (Adobe) /Ordering (Identity) /Supplement 0 >> /DW 1050 >> endobj 102 0 obj << /Type /FontDescriptor /Ascent 1069 /CapHeight 0 /Descent -271 /Flags 32 /FontBBox [ -1000 -308 2231 1077 ] /FontName /Arial,Bold /ItalicAngle 0 /StemV 0 /AvgWidth 442 /MaxWidth 1000 /MissingWidth 1000 >> endobj 200 0 obj << /Type /CMap /CMapName /UniAC-UCS2-8-H /CIDSystemInfo << /Registry (Adobe) /Ordering (Identity) /Supplement 0 >> /WMode 0 /Length 0 >> stream %!PS Adobe 3. 0 Resource CMap %% DocumentNeededResources: ProcSet (CIDInit) %%IncludeResource: ProcSet (CIDInit) %BeginResource: CMap (UniAC-UCS2-8-H) %Title: ( UniAC-UCS2-8-H Adobe Identity 0) %% EndComments /CIDInit /ProcSet findresource begin 12 dict begin begincmap /CIDSystemInfo 3 dict dup begin /Registry (Adobe) def /Ordering (Identity) def /Supplement 0 def >> end def /CMapName /UniAC-UCS2-8-H def /CMapVersion 10. 001 def /CMapType 1 def /UIDOffset 950 def /XUID [ 1 10 25343] def /WMode 0 def 1 begincodespacerange <0000> <FFFF> endcodespacerange 1 beginnotdefrange <0000> <001F> 0 endnotdefrange 1 begincidrange <0020> <007e> 3 endcidrange endcmap CMapName currentdict /CMap defineresource pop end end %%EndResource %%EOF endstream endobj

You asked "why can't you use a variant encoding" - so I'd like to explain.
The reason that Acrobat fails is that for an unembedded CIDFont, if the CIDSystemInfo is not one of the predefined CID collection (Adobe-Japan1, Adobe-CNS1, Adobe-GB1, Adobe-Japan1), we cannot reliably provide font substitution. We have to consider the situation where the PDF is open on a system without the (same) referenced font. For the PDF to be useful, the
exact same font must be present on all systems, otherwise we lose the Portability in PDF.
There are many versions of "Arial,Bold" with different number of glyphs and different glyph IDs assignment. The embedded CMap has the following mapping:
<0020> <007e> 3
In order to point to the same GIDs, all "Arial,Bold" must have glyph index 3 for U+0020, GID 36 for U+0041, and so on. There is no such guarantee in TrueType spec.
Hope that explains the situation.
Leonard

How should I organize and disable non-english fonts.

I'm a graphic designer and I'm having trouble organizing all of these random hebrew/japanese/chinese fonts that I never use.
I don't want to screw up my system, but I also don't want to scroll through 200 fonts every time I want to find one.
Is there an easy way I can find all of the non-english fonts and disable them?
Fontbook freezes and crashes all the time for me, so I've been using Suitcase Fusion free trial for a few days and disabled a bunch of fonts through it. Though, it prevents me from disabling anything considered a "System Font" which is fine, only having the necesccary non-english fonts is okay, I just don't want 75% of my font list in my adobe applications to be un-usable fonts.
I guess my problem is that by default, some fonts are pre-disabled on OS X, and should I run into problems, I want a way to easily re-enable these fonts if I need to. Also, since I've disabled so many fonts, I dont' know what ones are enabled by default. How would I go about restoring all of my fonts?
I think it'd be nice to be able to sort all of the fonts by what language they're in. But I don't know what language the font is because I don't speak those languages. Another problem is that you can't organize local fonts in Suitcase. I think using fontbook would be my best option for this, before switching back to Suitcase for regular use, but I still have the problem of restoring my already disabled fonts correctly, and figuring out which fonts are in what language. Could anyone help me out with this?

PS Here is a rough list of fonts provided with OS X intended for use only with particular non-Latin scripts:
Arabic : al bayan, baghdad, damascus, decotype naskh, geeza pro, nadeem
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Thai: ayuthaya, krungthep, sathu, silom, thonburi
Lao : lao
Tibetan: kailasa, kokonor
Korean: gungseo, headline, nanum, pcmyungjo, pilgi, applegothic, applemyungjo
Chinese: biaukai, gb18030, hei, heiti, kai, lihei, lisong, stfangsong, stheiti, stkaiti, stsong, apple ligothic, baoli, kaiti, lantinghei, libian, songti, wawati, weibei, xingkai, yuanti, yuppi
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Armenian: mshtakan
Ethiopic: kefa
Indic: devanagari, bangla, gurmukhi, gujarati, oriya, tamil, telugu, kannada, malayalam, sinhala,
Myanmar : myanmar
Cherokee : plantagenet cherokee
UCAS : euphemia
Khmer : khmer

Good free fonts for DTP

Hi,
I'm searching for some good and free fonts for Desktop Publishing purposes.
I would like to find an appealing serif font and some fonts I could use for headlines (sans serif).
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Ford Prefect

Hi,
you're right, they are really good fonts. But there are only few free ones, and I don't have money to buy from the others.
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Uninstall it... simple. Drag the application into the trash. Don’t download any unnecessary junk from now on. You don’t need it. Simple.
Use FONT BOOK instead.....Mac Basics: Font Book - Apple Support
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What to look for in free fonts?

I want to download some free fonts (I am a student) to use for some 300ppi print pieces and am wondering what to look for in a free font to determine whether it will print nicely at a high quality. What makes a good quality font? I know there is lots of garbage out there though there are also many good quality free fonts.
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This is not remotely a Photoshop question.
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Is there a way to prevent Mail from loading non system fonts?

For over a year, and a system OS upgrade, Mail has been taking 7 - 10 minutes to load all the thousands of fonts I have on my computer for graphic design. This started with Snow Leopard on my 2009 Mac Pro (10 GB RAM, 2 TB HDD). At first I didn't know why the computer was taking such a long time to finish boot up. So I reformatted the drive--zeroing it out. Then I installed Mavericks and reinstalled everything else. Finally I tried logging the system activity during startup and noticed that something to do with fonts took up the biggest chunk of this time. Because Mavericks loads any programs you leave running at shut down, I saw that if Mail had the fonts window open, the list of fonts would slowly grow, filling up with the many font families I use for my work. I called tech support for my font management utility but they say the fonts are not in the system and and shouldn't affect the system during startup. In the end I gave up and just go drink a few coffees after hitting the start button. It's like going back to the early days 25 years ago.
Can I stop Mail from loading any non-system fonts? I never use anything but the default font.

Hey SchenkerBob,
It is possible to disable non-system fonts temporarily for all applications using the Font Book application. This article explains how to do so -
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Disable and enable specific fonts
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Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Happy computing,
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generally, SCAN can be used for 10g databases and you discovered the first half: for 10g databases you will have to modify the REMOTE_LISTENER entry for each 10g database instance to point to the SCAN listeners (as opposed to pointing to the remote local listeners, which is the default in 10g). You could even have the databases registers themselves with SCAN and the remote listeners, if you wanted to... It's more or less a matter of configuration. But for simplification reasons, I will stick to the case where you have your 10g databases register with the SCAN listeners only.
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That doesn't mean the license extends to digital & web media though.
The fonts licensed by Kindle and included in the Fire are:
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Caecilia Condensed
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