Font Licence problem
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Hi,
I am new to this forum but it seems to be the best place to ask for help and advice with my InDesign book project.
I was planning to use a font called Andre SF and noticed it was a free download from various sources but when I try to export a document in PDF there is a warning that the font will be substituted because it is unlicensed.
Where and how do I licence this font – there was no option to pay when I downloaded it.
Any help appreciated
Thanks in advance,
Graham
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That font was one of Softmaker’s rip-offs of premium fonts. The font in question is Albertus and can be purchased from several places, like MyFonts.com, etc. Adobe includes it in the Font Folio collections I believe.
The Andre SF font can likely also still be found for purchase from whomever is still selling them (I think they are still in business). The problem with that font is likely the permissions are set to Restrcted–most all their fonts from back in the day were.
Do yourself a favor. If you want that font, buy the Monotype version from Adobe, Myfonts, etc., as the quality will be far better.
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You’re most welcome, Graham.
Like paid-for-fonts, free fonts come with a variety of licenses. A bunch one may find on some of the better free fonts sites (like DaFont) have what types of licensing the free versions have. And MyFonts also has free fonts. Usually these are offered by font makers where one or two styles are free, the others are paid-for styles.
Older fonts such as Andre SF are often restricted. That was common “back in the day.” Even Adobe and others had various restrictions on fonts that might today make ID and other applications that honor permissions, not allow mbedding the font in a PDF. Back then, with a PostScript workflow, these fonts would be converted to curves by the user or the application.
Anyway, glad it is sorted.
Take care, Mike
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