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Aug 6, 2010 10:06 AM UTC
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Font Licence use

Can I use the fonts supplied with Photoshop to design a book cover for publication. This is a commercial use, is this OK.

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    Dov Isaacs
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    Aug 6, 2010 3:15 PM UTC

    All the fonts provided with (i.e., "bundled" with) Adobe applications have licenses that allow for embedding in PDF or EPS files.

    If you are doing a book cover in Photoshop (not the best tool for that, but doable), to achieve the highest quality output for printing, you should save as a PDF file making sure that you keep text as text (i.e., don't flatten any layers). When you save as PDF, the text remains text, fonts used by the text are embedded in the PDF file, and vector shapes remain as vector. These factors will yield the highest quality for either subsequent display or printing of the content.

              - Dov

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    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
    Jacob Bugge
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    Aug 6, 2010 4:11 PM UTC

    I could not agree more, Dov.

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    Participant
    Aug 6, 2010 5:06 PM UTC

    Hi both Dov and Jacob

    Thank you both very much for your very helpful advice.

    Best Regards

    Ken

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    Jacob Bugge
    Community Expert
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    Aug 6, 2010 11:31 AM UTC

    Ken,

    If the font is not sent along with the artwork, yes; you may embed it in a PDF, or Layer > Type > Convert to Shapes in Photoshop.

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    Participant
    Aug 6, 2010 11:51 AM UTC

    Thanks

    Would this be the same if i sent a jpg to the publishers. Sorry to be naive its the first time I have been asked to do this type of work.

    Regards

    Ken

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    Jacob Bugge
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    Aug 6, 2010 2:49 PM UTC

    You are welcome, Ken.

    With a JPEG you reduce everything to a set of pixels, so yes.

    But be aware that JPEG is a lossy format: whatever is done to it will reduce its quality.

    Which formats do they accept?

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