Livecode 10dp6 and web fonts

[Mark Waddingham]

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.

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