Comment by jonpalmisc
9 hours ago
The licenses (from major foundries/vendors) are indeed usually quite restrictive; however, the hard part has always been enforcing them. It's not surprising to me that Google hasn't built any guardrails around this.
After all, gating by IP address? What happens if someone from the marketing team logs on from an airport? All of the slides revert to Arial?
The access would presumably need to be done through a VPN to have the fonts.
Ehh.. a lot of these docs go out to customers and end users. Playboy for instance sends out tons of their updates and plans to clients with their own custom fonts in it.
That's what PDFs are for --- the font files can be embedded in a fashion which precludes downloading/usage.
Various print shops have systems in place for previewing/approving print jobs as well.