On Apr 10, 2009, at 14:17 , Damien Pollet wrote:

>> Why is this requiring a new VM? Or did you mean an updated .app  
>> structure?
>
> Yes, I should have said VM application. Point is, the .app bundle is
> designed for this purpose, and images with preconfigured fonts will
> break or look ugly if the fonts are not there.
>
>
> The alternative possibilities are not very interesting:

Yep. How would we package the fonts for Unix and Windows VMs?

Adrian

>
> - use system fonts -> wrong, the fonts are only there by default on
> (most) linuxes, so in practice, images will break until the user
> manually installs the fonts
> - distribute fonts in the image -> huge image
> - distribute fonts besides the image -> it's already tedious to keep
> .image and .changes
> - distribute fonts besides the VM like the .sources -> I'm not sure if
> that plays well with OS conventions for font installation
>
>
> -- 
> Damien Pollet
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