Creating Interactive PDFs for Commerical Use

[MetalBankai]

Hello, I've been asked to create Interactive PDF documents for commerical use and am using adobe fonts in them how to I ensure i am compliant with the Adobe fonts licencing? Do I embed the fonts into the document and then password protect the editing? Also if I end my adobe subscription would my client need to get a subscription in order to continue selling the documents?

Any help is greatly appriciated!

[Willi Adelberger]

Any fonts that have the flag to allow embedding, are legal embedded. All Adobe fonts allow embedding in PDFs. So it is not a problem.

[MetalBankai]

Thank you, However if I end my subscription to creative cloud, would my client need to get a subscription in order to keep selling the pdfs?

[TᴀW]

If the fonts have been properly embedded in the PDFs, they're there, and nobody would need a subscription to be able to continue seeing the PDF as you intended.

[MetalBankai]

But would it still be legal to sell them?

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

The PDFs--yes, you can sell them. It's important that you/your customer recommend viewing in the free Adobe Reader. Some features won't work properly in other viewers. 

[TᴀW]

Note that if you are using InDesign's Buttons and Forms panel to set the font of form fields, those fonts will not be properly embedded in the final PDF. So if the end-user doesn't have the fonts installed, they won't be able to use your fonts to enter data in form fields on the final PDF.

To properly embed fonts, you would need to select the font for each field in Acrobat rather than InDesign, or use FormMaker (which would allow you to choose the font in InDesign).