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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0003254 | FreeCAD | Feature | public | 2017-11-11 11:56 | 2021-02-06 06:50 |
| Reporter | Kunda1 | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 0.17 | ||||
| Target Version | 0.20 | ||||
| Summary | 0003254: Wrong paths to fonts occur when you exchange models between different systems. An 'Embed' option would be useful | ||||
| Description | If a font that is used in FC file is missing on a system that the file wasn't created on, FC throws errors as described in th forum thread Workaround is copying the font file into a local directory on the other system, set the font in Preferences->Draft->TextAndDimensions and use relative paths. | ||||
| Additional Information | Original Forum thread: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?p=198905#p198775 Dedicated forum thread: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29504&p=241658#p241658 Please discuss in the above 'dedicated' forum thread | ||||
| Tags | #lowhangingfruit, Bountysource Potential, export, font, packaging | ||||
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Supposing this is about draft shapestrings... Indeed the font file is needed to rebuild the correct geometry. Therefore it makes sense to have it embedded. It's a rather simle change (change App::PropertyFile with PropertyFileIncluded) however, if we have many shapestrings, each of them will embed a copy of the font file in the file.. That might be annoying. Not sure what would be a best path here... |
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Guys, there's a potential license issue here. What if the font that was used has a license that prohibits the user from distributing it? |
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@normandc IMO, this is the users responsiblity. Take Scribus for example, I don't recall Scribus having this functionality, and it is a FOSS Desktop Publishing program. |
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Are you saying that Scribus doesn't offer the option to embed fonts in documents? If that's so, well, maybe this is related. |
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More related discussion on this topic at https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=38643&start=40#p330424 |
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This ticket has been migrated to GitHub as issue 5746. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2017-11-11 11:56 | Kunda1 | New Issue | |
| 2017-11-11 12:13 | Kunda1 | Tag Attached: #lowhangingfruit | |
| 2017-12-09 11:40 | Kunda1 | Tag Attached: export | |
| 2017-12-09 11:40 | Kunda1 | Tag Attached: font | |
| 2017-12-09 11:40 | Kunda1 | Tag Attached: packaging | |
| 2017-12-09 11:41 | Kunda1 | Target Version | => 0.18 |
| 2018-06-28 13:21 | Kunda1 | Additional Information Updated | |
| 2019-01-18 21:54 | yorik | Note Added: 0012462 | |
| 2019-02-09 20:27 | normandc | Note Added: 0012600 | |
| 2019-02-10 15:33 | Kunda1 | Note Added: 0012604 | |
| 2019-02-10 17:16 | normandc | Note Added: 0012612 | |
| 2019-02-23 20:42 | wmayer | Target Version | 0.18 => 0.19 |
| 2019-08-30 11:10 | Kunda1 | Note Added: 0013488 | |
| 2019-08-30 11:11 | Kunda1 | Tag Attached: Bountysource Potential | |
| 2021-02-06 06:50 | abdullah | Target Version | => 0.20 |
