On 2 Jul 2011, at 08:44, Georg Potthast wrote:
> I tried again and changed the first four entries in the Fl_Fontdesc > built_in_table[] from Helvetica to dejavu and that did work now. > > However, I think FLTK is free of charge and therefore should not use a font > as a default font which is not free. If you want to download the font, you > have to pay for it. You are not allowed to use it without paying a licence > fee. I'm late to this party - and I see Mike's already said this anyway - but I think this might be worrying about nothing; all the major distro's are shipping some font that works as Helvetica, or is returned by the font engine if you ask for Helvetica, and which have the same key glyph dimensions (even if they are not pixel-for-pixel identical, most users don't know the difference, c.f. Helvetica and Arial for the most well-known instance of this...) It's not a fltk issue - the distro's have already done this work and thought about the licensing. I doubt many (or any!) are shipping a font that is literally what Haas/Stempel designed and licensed, but they all have a "Helvetica" font that the font engine will return if you ask for it... And most look more like "true" Helvetica than the dejavu sans font (which I think looks a bit clunky anyway FWIW.) _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
