[mythtv-users] Using Google Webfonts in the MythTV UI

Alec Leamas leamas.alec at gmail.com
Wed Jan 8 19:47:07 UTC 2014


OK, sorry, misinterpreted  the situation. I  just wanted to save some work
for  poor Richard, the rpmfusion mythtv maintainer


On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:

>  On 1/8/2014 2:05 PM, Beny Spensieri Jr wrote:
>
> This is exactly my point.  Google's Webfonts are hosted on their own
> servers.
>
>  thttp://www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:abou
>
>  These fonts are open sourced and freely licensed, but you can't actually
> download the font files.  You code your css to use them remotely.
>
>
> How exactly are you supposed to use the fonts without downloading them?
> If you can't download them, you can't access the data contained within
> them.  Is it doing something awful like rendering the text remotely, and
> downloading it as rasterized images?
>
> How exactly are you supposed to use the fonts in a UI that is not
> HTML-based, nor web-based in any way, and is not coded using CSS?
>
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