On 21 Aug 2011, at 02:47, Bill Spitzak wrote: > On 07/02/2011 12:44 AM, Georg Potthast wrote: >> Thank you Matthias, >> >> 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. >> >> Georg > > Isn't fltk using xft now? I don't think that old X11 Xfd code is used > unless you compile for a really old machine.
Yup - XFT is the default, but there's still a lot of places (e.g. embedded systems or minimal installs) where XFT is not guaranteed to be present, so retaining the Xlib way is still handy... > The xft code asks for "sans" and so on, not any copyrighted names. Sure, but I don't think the Helvetica name is a problem anyway - all the distros have been through this, and ship a "Helvetica" that is OK, as far as I can make out... _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
