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Article #17894Adobe font license agreement
From: Paul Steele
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1987 12:12
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1987 12:12
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I am posting this message on behalf of a professor in our French
department. He has recently purchased Adobe's Sonata font for use
with a laser printer. The license agreement states that it can only
be used on one laser printer. I guess that this is done by naming
the laser printer and initializing the font in some manner. If the
implications are correct, this is completely unacceptable to him. He
does not own a laser printer himself, so he would have to choose one
of the campus printers for his font, and then would be unable to use
the software on any other printer, either at out university or someplace
else. The installation instuctions state that if the installed printer
breaks down and requires a new motherboard, the end-user must submit
a bill of repairs to varify that the font installation has been lost
and they will then send you a new master disk so the font can be reinstalled
on the new motherboard.
Is this for real? He doesn't want to install the font until he fully
understands the implications of the license. Has anyone had any experience
with Adobe fonts they would like to share?
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