On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:51:10AM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 11:59:20PM +0200, Ariel Garcia wrote: > > why would the client need admin rights? > > > > i'm not suggesting it should run "apt-get install my-new-font", > > but rather the client running under a plain unprivileged user could just > > add > > the needed fonts from a downloadable tarball at OSM... > > > > Something like: > > > > wget http://ftp.openstreetmap.org/font/extra-font-1.tgz > > tar xfz extra-font-1.tgz ~/.fonts > > > > and edit ~/.fonts.conf accordingly. > > > > Wouldn't that work? > > Windows? Not that i'll use it but there are probably 50% of the users running > the > client under windows ...
And does it work with all the rasterizers? The easiest approach is probably to check for fonts and require people running the client to install it in whatever way is appropriate for their OS and rasterizer of choice. -- Knut Arne Bjørndal aka Bob Kåre [email protected] bobk...@irc
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