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> There is no need to depend on the availability of external fonts on a > particular system. I think converting a TTF font is not a good idea, partly because of copyright issues and partly because UTF8 fonts can be HUGE (thousands of glyphs) and that's a lot of data to store uncompressed. And that's per font! We should also have a way to support multiple fonts (it's easy to imagine a board needing regular, bold, and symbol at least). Better to find a redistributable TTF font and include it as-is (perhaps the Liberation fonts), or provide some sort of font substitution table. I know people will complain about substitutions having different metrics, but if we base our work on redistributable fonts with standard metrics, at least on a per-project basis it shouldn't be a problem.
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