[OpenFontLibrary] [GFD] Treatment of the OFL in the wild

[Dave Crossland]

On 5 June 2013 08:26, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
>> Web fonts are never embedding, they are always separate resources that are
>> linked to documents.
>
> And so are fonts embedded in PDF files

Is it changing the data representation from binary to base64 ascii
encoding that makes for you distribution of the font data then
'embedding'?

Or is it the distribution of the font data inline in a single file
that also contains document data what makes it 'embedding'?

Typekit uses base64 encoding of its fonts as part of its normal
distribution mechanism. The data isn't inline in a single file, it is
linked to in a separate style file that is served from a different
server to the document. Do you see Typekit as linking or embedding the
fonts?