I agree with you that the installer can handle the issue more correctly.

But

In my case (probably other users too) I never use the installer, I use the zip which just run. No registry keys no nothing. Also to switch from PCs, versions, various tests & and more.

But I can perfectly live if the issue is handled only with the installer.

>work around tried and tested solutions,

sounds a bit errorprone to me.

The twapi solution is really straigth-forward. It will work yes or yes.

It adds around 1.2MB to the app.

600 for the fonts & 600 for the twapi.

Mensaje telepatico asistido por maquinas.

From: Pd-list <pd-list-bounces@lists.iem.at> on behalf of IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 10:50 AM
To: pd-list@lists.iem.at
Subject: Re: [PD] Pd Metrics on Xubuntu 16 04 02 LTS

On 2017-02-16 11:09, Lucas Cordiviola wrote:
>> Is there the slightest chance of Pd on Windows using DejaVu without the
>
> user having to install it first?
>
> Yes,
>
> https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2017-02/117845.html
>
> Do you know other method? Using C code?

i already mentioned this in [42], but i still fail to see what is wrong
with properly installing the font.

if there is an installer (and thanks to roman, Pd now (also) comes as a
nice NSIS-based installer), this can easily be automated: installers are
quite good at installing things (including fonts).
otoh, writing custom code to work around tried and tested solutions,
sounds a bit errorprone to me.

dfmrs
IOhannes

[42] https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/42#issuecomment-279952348