[TYPO3-english] protect (and still use) font folder

[Mike Meir]

Hi

AFAIK Font Squirrel, which is otherwise very convenient, doesn't allow
you to specify the domain for which the eot files will be valid. The
original question was about securing the fonts.

Best Wishes



Mike

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Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:44:09 -0400
From: Sergey Alexandrov <serg at alexandrov.us>
Subject: Re: [TYPO3-english] protect (and still use) font folder
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http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator

On 4/5/2012 5:21 AM, Mike Meir wrote:
> Hi Katya
>
> See http://www.microsoft.com/typography/WEFT.mspx
>
> This enables you to download the Microsoft WEFT software for creating 
> .eot files from .ttf or .otf fonts files, provided their embedding 
> permissions are set to allow embedding.
>
> .eot files are both compressed and encrypted (rather lightly). They 
> may also be subsetted to contain only the glyphs used in the document 
> (though that could be a problem with a CMS where you cannot predict 
> the text), and they can be locked so that they only work for text from

> a given url when it is displayed within a browser. They are supported 
> by
> (many) modern browsers.
>
> So, although they have to be downloaded, they can be protected enough 
> to put off the casual pirate, and if they are downloaded through 
> illegitimate routes they can still only be used to display the text 
> from the web site they are locked to, within a browser.
>
> A more pertinent issue may well be that the fonts are not licensed for

> use from a web server, and/or the embedding bit may be set to prevent 
> .eot files from being generated from them.  In that case the foundry 
> may or may not be willing to produce .eot files licensed for embedding

> on a particular web site. However, fonts in this class are probably 
> also "optimised" for print use, and not hinted especially well for use

> on screen. So they probably won't look too good either, particularly 
> at small sizes.
>
> Best Wishes
>
>
> Mike
>
>
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>
> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 22:41:13 +0000 (UTC)
> From: bernd wilke<t3ng at pi-phi.tk>
> Subject: Re: [TYPO3-english] protect (and still use) font folder
> To: typo3-english at lists.typo3.org
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> Am Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:07:17 +0300 schrieb Katja Lampela:
>
>> Hi,
>> okay, thank you Bj?rn for this information.
>>
>> 4.4.2012 9:32, Bj?rn Pedersen kirjoitti:
>>> On 04.04.2012 07:55, Katja Lampela wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> In one of my client's site they use @font-face method and the font 
>>>> files need to be protected from download.
>>>>
>>>> Using the simplest method, .htaccess+.htpasswd doesn't work, since 
>>>> the fonts can't be used at all without logging in.
>>>>
>>>> How would you recommend I do this?
>>>> I have this link/method, but it seems a bit complicated:
>>>> http://subjectiveobject.com/2009/10/28/securing-font-face/
>>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> well, to use the font it needs to be downloaded to the client. There

>>> is no way around that. You may make it harder to save this font file

>>> to disk, but you can not prevent it fully. The only way would be to 
>>> render everything as images, but that is no real solution as well.
>>>
>>> So you can make it harder as done in your link by going trough some 
>>> php file loader, but thats all you can do.
>>>
>>> Bj?rn
> you may use "cufon".
> not as simple as @font-face, but possible:
> it renders all text on the fly into canvas-graphics with the desired 
> font, the original font-file does not need to be accessible, so 
> something like a dump is done (the font is renderd into javascript 
> arrays which might enable others to use it the same way as you)
>
>
> bernd
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