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Old 10-24-2014, 05:21 PM   #164
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
As PeterT said, discussion on the list is not as free as it used to be. But, I do remember this being asked. The problem is that they can't trust the sideloaded fonts. If there is a problem with the font and things go wrong, it affects the user experience and Kobo will be blamed.

Is it a cop-out? Probably. But, if they have tested a few fonts and found problems with them, then they can justify it.
I can see how that could be a problem. I found a nice looking free font (forget the name) and I tried to tweak it in a good font editing program and because of the poor way it was designed, some of the letter/characters did not come out properly. But can't Kobo put it in the beta section with a note that it's not guaranteed to work with all fonts?
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