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denny:
Sorry to double post but I have a question (also asked in my concept thread). I wish to use the chicago12 font. Is this ok? I cant find out why it was removed from the default fonts pack.
Thanks.
Llorean:
It was removed because the license doesn't allow us to redistribute it. It is not okay to use that font. Try one of the Nimbus fonts, maybe?
pixelma:
If you want your theme to be included in official rockbox builds, you can't use the chicago-12 font. It's been removed due to possible legal issues if I remember correctly. Besides, the chicago font had a lot less characters (mainly ASCII only, not even Latin-1 or greek and cyrillic as nimbus has).
The problem is that chicago-12 was actually a 13 pixels tall font, so there should be a nimbus-13 font to really replace it. I prepared one, but it's only the -12 version with an additional line of spacing... I also noticed that the nimbus-14 is also almost the -12 version with additional spacing (the set of characters also differs a bit) so that, if a nimbus-13 would get committed, there would actually 3 "different" fonts which only differ in spacing. Would that be desired? Thinking of it: wasn't that already the case while chicago.fnt was there...
I know it's a little off-topic (but might help the project ;)) but any comments are welcome.
Llorean:
I'd say your Nimbus-13 should go ahead and be committed, I don't really see a problem with it. Just my opinion though, but it'd be helpful for people migrating Chicago-12 themes easily.
denny:
pixelma, Ah, ok. Back to the drawing board then. As far as i can tell the chicago12 was as you say, a 13pt font since it had an extra line of spacing. If you have a nimbus-13 (is the extra space at the top of the font?) I would be very interested in getting a copy :). The thing about a font of this size is you get only complete lines on the 160x128 targets, no cut off and useless lines.
Thanks.
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