What legal considerations are involved with fonts in electronic documents?
Legitimate licensees of fonts or font software can create, print, copy, or distribute documents anywhere in the world. After all, that is what publishing is all about, and that is precisely why font vendors create and sell their font products. The end result of distributing a document electronically and printing it at its intended destinations is no different from printing and distributing the document. Similarly, TrueDoc lets publishers distribute documents electronically for viewing or printing anywhere in the world, but without, for instance, the resolution limitations associated with faxing. TrueDoc captures character shapes at the publishing or authoring end, encodes the shapes digitally, and allows them to be transmitted to recipients, maintaining, within the reproduced document, the typographic quality that the author intended. In other words, TrueDoc provides a way to reproduce the look and feel of a document. When recording characters, the TrueDoc recorder does not access the
