On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Paweł Hajdan Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought about bundling required fonts with the test_shell. I'm not > sure about the licensing issues, but this would probably solve these > technical problems. These fonts shouldn't change etc... What do you > think?
All of the fonts but one that we depend on are in msttcorefonts, where others have interpreted[1] the license to say that you may only distribute the .exe files, not the .ttf files contained within them. So I think we can't really distribute those. I haven't looked into that one other font (Lucida?) but maybe we could distribute that one -- on Ubuntu the package dependencies work out such that installing the package that has that font pulls in some enormous side thing like the java sdk. Some other ideas: - always pull fonts from a resources directory within test_shell, and require people to fix symlinks from that directory themselves (can we check in symlinks in svn?) - use a fontconfig file rather than the hard-coded list of paths and let people override it - use a command-line flag for the paths to search for fonts? ugh, I hope that's not the best option. [1] http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/faq8.htm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
