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MacOS fonts. Can they be used in commercial printing?


I know this question has been asked before but there seem to be several conflicting opinions. If anyone could help me with this I would be very grateful.



I am intending to self-publish a book printed by a commercial printer, which I will prepare in my subscription copy of Adobe InDesign CC and will send to the printer as a print-ready PDF.


I plan to use two main typefaces one of which is an activated Adobe Font and, as I understand it, is licensed for this type of use under my Creative Cloud subscription. The other is Times Roman which is available as part of MacOS. Would I need to seek a separate licence from eg Linotype to use Times or can I use it for commercial print as part of MacOS?


Many thanks for any advice.

Posted on Aug 15, 2020 9:29 AM

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Posted on Aug 16, 2020 9:43 AM

Apple's Catalina EULA declares:


E. Fonts. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you may use the fonts included with the Apple Software to display and print content while running the Apple Software; however, you may only embed fonts in content if that is permitted by the embedding restrictions accompanying the font in question. These embedding restrictions can be found in the Font Book/Preview/Show Font Info panel.


Times New Roman provided with Catalina is allowed for Preview & Print Embedding.


You definitely can prepare your PDF for print and forward it to your print shop.

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User profile for user: Marco Klobas
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Aug 16, 2020 9:43 AM in response to 1reasonosx

Apple's Catalina EULA declares:


E. Fonts. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you may use the fonts included with the Apple Software to display and print content while running the Apple Software; however, you may only embed fonts in content if that is permitted by the embedding restrictions accompanying the font in question. These embedding restrictions can be found in the Font Book/Preview/Show Font Info panel.


Times New Roman provided with Catalina is allowed for Preview & Print Embedding.


You definitely can prepare your PDF for print and forward it to your print shop.

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Aug 17, 2020 2:40 PM in response to Marco Klobas

Thank you very much. I appreciate the help.


I eventually also got through to someone at Monotype, who said that Times New Roman on Mac can indeed be used in a PDF to be used in commercial printing. However, I would need an ePub licence if I also wanted to distribute a PDF version of the book. I think I will look for an alternative in Adobe Fonts which, for Creative Cloud subscribers, appear to be licensed for print and eBooks.


Thanks again.

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