[Scummvm-devel] How to package fonts for an engine

[Adrian Astley]

As an added in response to Criezy: the fonts needed by ZNem / ZGI are
Century Schoolbook, Garamond Bold, Times New Roman Bold, and Courier New.


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Thierry Crozat <criezy at scummvm.org> wrote:

>
> On 22 Sep 2013, at 23:33, Adrian Astley <adastley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> In most of the releases of Zork Nemesis and Zork Grand Inquisitor, there
> are no font files provided. It was assumed that the fonts could be found on
> the users operating system. Since we can not assume that I'm faced with a
> delima of what to use for fonts. So far I've come up with two solutions:
>
>    1. Ask the user to acquire the fonts and put them in a specific folder
>
> You don't say which fonts thy are and if they are free of not, but
> considering the rest of your email I will assume they are not free. In such
> a case I don't think this is a good idea to rely on the user providing
> them. If they are present on the system if might be good to pick them
> though (although if we want to do that without the need for the user to
> copy them with the game files, this might mean adding for example a way to
> get the system font path in OSystem or adding a font path in the options
> and having a system dependant default, and I am not sure this is worth it,
> unless other games would benefit from it too).
>
>
>    1. Supply royalty-free replacements for the fonts
>
> That sounds like a sound idea. I can see two ways to do that though:
> either like game data files, i.e. bundled with ScummVM, or like extras
> files like the cutscenes of the BS games. I would favour the second option,
> especially if we can use the original fonts when they are present on the
> system.
>
> Thierry
>
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