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Old 10-01-2013, 04:30 PM   #166
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Originally Posted by NiLuJe View Post
@Katsunami: Which is exactly what I was thinking of, except you can replace 'broken' by 'random', because I've had perfectly valid (and simple) fonts make Amazon's FreeType crash/loop, basically badly mess up. Couple that with the "3 strikes and you're out" behavior of the boot process, and that makes for a shiny luminous paperweight in record time.

And then if you actually use a proper FreeType build from upstream's sources, it magically works without a hitch... So, yeah, not surprised they didn't bother to implement it in a saner way, and just killed it outright, because a wide release as is would be a mess to support.

I've used alt font on k3 for years and have tried dozens of fonts. The worst that ever happened was I couldn't open a book. I never got a brick or failure to boot to library screen.
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