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TedHildebrandt's avatar
TedHildebrandt
Community Member
14 years ago

Are fonts embedded?

When I would pick a new font for a slide is that font embedded? In other words if I have a special font on my machine and I click on that special font does the user have to have that font on th...
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KevMan-b0b88161's avatar
KevMan-b0b88161
Community Member
9 years ago

"Variable reference fonts are not embedded"

This has been an issue for 5 years, and this hasn't been fixed yet?
Seriously?  Why? 
You like the idea of generic system fonts to show up in an otherwise styled activity?  None of us do and have been saying so for half a decade.
HELLO!?!?!?

  • Justin's avatar
    Justin
    Staff
    9 years ago

    Hi, Kev.

    We can't make variable references display using custom fonts right now because we don't know what characters a variable might use, and embedding every character in a font would seriously bloat the size of your published output.

    For example, some font files are up to 25 MB in size, and we load font files into the main CSS of the course, not just for the slide that needs it.  So, imagine (1) delivering that over a mobile network and (2) not crashing mobile safari with that.

    We're absolutely considering ways to fix this and will continue to do so, but for now, it's a very challenging problem to solve.