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Legal electronic
digital signature,
The future for
digital
signatures in fonts.
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In this
Legal electronic digital signature article, we have
referred to the person who signs a font file as its publisher. However,
in font production, many companies and individuals contribute to the
final product. For example, in the case of the Palatino Linotype font;
Linotype owns the trademark to the name 'Palatino', Herman Zapf was
responsible for the original designs, Monotype engineers hinted the font
and Microsoft was responsible for testing and project management,
Legal electronic digital signature. Each
of these areas could be referred to as an authenticated attribute and
it will be possible for a font to contain a number of different
signatures, one for each attribute. It is also possible that in special
cases a font vendor may require that to install a font the user must add
their personal signature to the font file. These processes are known as
co-signing or countersigning. -Legal electronic digital signature
Legal electronic digital signature, Although the Open-Type font specification allows for countersigning,
Windows 2000 does not support the authentication and verification of
each individual signature in a font. Our font-signing tool will only let
one publisher sign a font. Another area especially relevant to font
embedding and Far East fonts is that of sub-setting. It is useful in some
applications to create custom fonts that only support some of the
characters included in the original font.
However, Microsoft is working on a technique where by individual
characters can be removed with the signature remaining intact, -Legal
electronic digital signature.
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