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Old 03-23-2018, 01:47 PM   #377
Doitsu
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Originally Posted by KevinH View Post
Are the fixes in fonttools really needed?
Not really. The plugin works fine with the bundled version, which is pretty stable, however, each new release might make the subsetting more efficient.

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Is there some way to have your plugin check if there are important updates to fonttools, and if so ask the user to update it manually.
I haven't created the actual code yet. I thought about checking the fonttools github release notes for "subsetting."

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Maybe default the auto-update feature to disabled, and then explain how those who want the dependency to be automatically kept up to date can enable it for themselves?
Thanks for your helpful comments!
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