How to protect a PDF (from font-rippers) for upload to services like Lulu?
Good day, everyone.
I'm planning to upload a PDF to Lulu (publishing service) so that others could view it, download it, and print it.
The font I'm using is not freeware, nor would anyone normally have a licence for it (unless they purchase it) but me. How would I protect the PDF from folks who might try to rip the fonts from it? I want to "lock" it, but so that it's still viewable and printable.
Thank you.
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https://bestfontforward.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/outlining-text-in-adobe-acrobat/
The text would just be like vector shapes in the document and you would avoid embedding the font. You could also rasterize pages as images but then they'd get blocky on zooming in so vector text will probably be best. This would make it hard for search engines to index so if you wanted that you'd have to hide a copy of the text in plain text somewhere in the document.
You can convert text to outlines:
https://bestfontforward.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/outlining-text-in-adobe-acrobat/
The text would just be like vector shapes in the document and you would avoid embedding the font. You could also rasterize pages as images but then they'd get blocky on zooming in so vector text will probably be best. This would make it hard for search engines to index so if you wanted that you'd have to hide a copy of the text in plain text somewhere in the document.
Perfect. That clears things up.
Thank you!