On 10/4/2023 2:57 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
On 2023-09-27 15:49, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
I get the value of web font support in LC10dp6 for WEB based
applications.
However, if you making a multi-platform application, you still have
the issue of UI consistency across platforms as web fonts can't be
used in desktop standalones (or, I assume, phone standalones)
It is true that web fonts are a 'browser' thing - however, you can
still download the underlying TTF files from the web font service and
include them in native standalones if you want to use the same fonts
across web and native apps (obviously, you need to check the license
the fonts are served under - but that's true with any non-system fonts
you might include at the moment).
In the future we could look at making font inclusion easier in
standalones cross-platform (i.e. allow specifying fonts in the s/b at
a higher-level and then it doing the right thing) - however, there are
some engine improvements to font selection across the different
platforms we need to do first (in particularly, 'fixing' the font
enumeration properties and allowing specification of different weights
and stretches via the textStyle properties!).
Warmest Regards,
Mark.
Thank you again Mark. I did not know that "Web" font, like most (All?)
Google fonts could be downloaded as TTF files (I just downloaded
Google's Roboto family - a ZIP with Roboto in various styles as ttf
files) and use them in Desktop builds This is good to know. I use
Google Fonts on a number of web sites. I never thought to even look into
their use as a downloadable font!
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