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Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
@"Christopher Slye". You'll remember that, back in the day when you were the head of Adobe fonts, I asked for an edit to the Adobe terms of use? That edit would have expressly empowered fou…3 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
@"c.g." When I read "classic piracy" I interpret that to mean a person who sets out to steel and knows they are doing it. That's not what this is. What this is, however, is one mo…5 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
I wrote a lot of that licensing FAQ for Adobe and played a large part in the licensing policies with the service after the Typekit acquisition. (And like John H., I was part of the working group that…2 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
By the way, part of Typekit’s pre-Adobe terms of use allowed a Typekit subscriber to create and host kits for client websites. IIRC we scrubbed that from the terms around the time the service changed…2 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
This is perhaps a more important topic than classic piracy because it involves much more potential buyers.1 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
Since switching to subscription, Adobe is being showered with money, hiring some more people should be an easy thing to do.3 -
Re: Eyeball font identification party trick strategies
For me, font ID has always been kind of a gestalt thing, like recognizing someone's face. Even so, I do rely on certain unique attributes for some typefaces, like that dreadful R in Arial. These tend…3 -
Re: Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
WOFF, OTF, TTF. They all get used on violating websites. The format is not important to the topic. I would also like to say that I'm very happy with being a part of Adobe Type, and the revenue we're …4 -
Widespread misunderstanding of AdobeType's license causing foundries to loose revenue.
Most of my fonts are available via AdobeFonts through the AdobeCC. Over that past six months I have discovered that widespread misunderstanding of the AdobeType license is causing me to loose a very …11 -
Re: Empirical Statistics of Font/Glyph Metrics
Because of the difficulty in duplicating line breaks with layout application “paragraph composers”, I would recommend that the software be set up to “fix” the first and last words in the line, then s…1
