DroidSans fonts

Jaggy · 2011-01-28, 01:17 AM

As I discovered yesterday Hairy included the droidsans fonts in his release of the Slate skin unfortunately this is a 26Mb download just to get some fonts & as they are needed for the correct display of default in 1.5.36 I did some Googling & it looks like they are free to distribute from what I can gather here http://code.google.com/webfonts/family?f...s#download so I was wondering would it be a good idea to include the link in the NPVR sticky? Here is a copy of the license as well.

mvallevand · 2011-01-28, 07:08 AM

Sub shouldn't these be included with NPVR? After Jaggy and ACTCMS pointed this out last night, I noticed global.xml really does reguire these fonts.

Martin

steeb · 2011-01-28, 01:33 PM

mvallevand Wrote:Sub shouldn't these be included with NPVR? After Jaggy and ACTCMS pointed this out last night, I noticed global.xml really does reguire these fonts.

Martin

Well done Jaggy and ACTCMS for flagging this up and investigating. For what it is worth IMO I have to agree with Martin, best case scenario these should somehow be included with a NextPVR install, silently rather than manually would be even better. Having read through the terms of license for these fonts I can't see that this is an issue provided they are accompanied with the license details.

steeb

***sub*** · 2011-01-28, 03:41 PM

I forgot to actually add installer steps to install them. I had intended to. I'll fix it up in the next release.

johnsonx42 · 2011-01-28, 07:22 PM

oh, so it's been working for most of us because we had already installed Slate before? what does it do for new users who haven't installed the font? just fail back to a different font and not look quite right?

***sub*** · 2011-01-28, 07:27 PM

johnsonx42 Wrote:oh, so it's been working for most of us because we had already installed Slate before? what does it do for new users who haven't installed the font? just fail back to a different font and not look quite right?

Yeah, its falling back to another font, but it's not too dissimilar, so doesnt look that different.

Jaggy · 2011-01-28, 11:32 PM

johnsonx42 Wrote:oh, so it's been working for most of us because we had already installed Slate before?

I doubt it is "most of us" just looking at the relatively small number of downloads all the skins get, unless there is a REALLY small number of users on NextPVR at the moment Wink

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