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In article <8805@shlump.nac.dec.com> batcheldern@hannah.enet.dec.com writes:
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>> they would ever use it.  Does all this mean that I can't send a PS fiel
>> to the publisher for printing by them because it would have the font
>> included as part of the PS file that I generated through Lotus
>> Manuscript??
>
>Let's put it this way: if you for some reason wanted to send them not
>the PS file, but the Manuscript file, and they didn't have Manuscript,
>and wouldn't buy it because they were only going to use it this once to
>print your document, could you legally give them a copy to use? Of course not.

I don't see this as being quite the same.  Manuscript is an entire
software package; this is a single file generated by someone using a
legal copy of that package.  The other software package in the above
system is the PostScript interpreter---the one on the typesetter in
this case.  Both of these have been paid for and are being used in a
legal fashion.  The PS file is just a way of moving information from
one software package to another software package; Manuscript generate
PostScript files and the typesetter turns PostScript files into
typeset pages.

Now I don't profess to know all the legal ins-and-outs of this issue,
but it doesn't seem right that one should not be able to do what is
described here.  Now I could see a problem if the file was given to
the publisher for some other use since that would entail also giving
them the font.  This isn't the case here:  the file is being given to
the publisher for the sole purpose of printing it on a high-resolution
PostScript device.  The file will not be retained by the publisher
other than to print it.

What would the case be if there was some way to send this file
directly to the publisher's typesetter (i.e. not take a disk across
the street)?  What if this could be done trasnparently from the
program?  

I wouldn't have any moral problems with any of this.  The publisher is
not retaining for the file (or font), and the person that paid for the
special font is the one using it.  Now of course this makes it
possible for the publisher to get fonts in an illegal fashion, but
that's getting off track a bit.

Just my thoughts...
   Dan
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