From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: A rose by any other name ....
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 14:33:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100918113337.GE3507@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1009161610320.24537@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 04:13:43PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, Peter Rolf wrote:
>
> >Am 16.09.2010 13:12, schrieb Patrick Gundlach:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Is it possible to change the name of the font as it appears in the pdf file?
> >>>
> >>>More specifically, I am using Termes font, but I want that the document properties to show the name of the font as Times. Is that possible? Is doing so a violation of the font license?
> >>
> >>It sounds like a trademark infringement to me. I would be surprised if times is not a ®.
> >>
> >sadly true...
>
> Sigh...Thanks for the clarification.
>
> >Better try to convince the customer that a rose is a rose... ;-)
>
> I am still interested in changing the name of the font...not to
> Times but to some gibberish (like the characters that pdftex adds
> before Type1 font names). Then, I can blame the font naming on a
> software limitation ;)
Output an uncompressed PDF, open in a text editor, search for the font
name and replace it, but you will need to fix xref after that (no idea
what xref is, but pdclean from mupdf fixs it)
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-18 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-15 22:34 Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-16 11:05 ` Peter Rolf
2010-09-16 11:12 ` Patrick Gundlach
2010-09-16 13:36 ` Peter Rolf
2010-09-16 20:13 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-17 8:08 ` Peter Rolf
2010-09-18 11:33 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2010-09-18 12:07 ` luigi scarso
2010-09-18 12:16 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-09-20 11:30 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2010-09-23 10:56 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-09-23 14:51 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-23 16:15 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-09-23 16:22 ` William Adams
2010-09-23 16:26 ` Aditya Mahajan
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