Frank Barknecht wrote:
Hallo, IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
somebody at debian just discovered that the arial.ttf that comes with Gem is copyrighted by "The MonoType Corporation", and therefore not distributable with a GPL'ed package.
i guess, we have to remove it. anybody knows a free version of arial or some appropriate replacement?
The Bitstream fonts are free, Bitstream Vera Sans is remotely similar to Arial. (Looks even better IMO)
super.
i have removed the 3 other fonts from the CVS and added the vera.ttf instead. however, the default font the [text] objects try to load is still "arial.ttf"; should we change that to vera.ttf? this will eventually break patches that rely on the font being called "arial.ttf" (e.g. i usually take the font i want and rename it to "arial.ttf")
which brings me to an idea: what about an object [defaultfontname] that can be used to set the default font name. or even better a more general interface (e.g. a method for [gemwin]/[gemcontrol] that allows you to set the default fontname)
fmg.asdr IOhannes