On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is the issue the bundling, the license terms, where the files live, or
> just the principle of it all?
>

Bundling, but fonts can be a tricky issue although they don't look to be
installed anywhere where they would be a problem.

I think there's already a font install option. I'll start there.


>
> It will still find the system fonts just like it always did.
>
> The purpose of the bundled fonts it to make sure there was at least one
> option wherein users (and my unit tests) could get identical results for
> text rendering on all platforms, and for it to be able to make some
> fallback if another requested font was not found anywhere. It is not
> critical to any operation, and we can easily disable it. If it's helpful to
> you, I'm happy to make a build-time option to skip it.


 It's fine to keep them in the source for testing purposes as long as I can
prevent them from being installed.

Thanks,
Richard
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