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Re: Not matching our bitmap Helvetica



>> Which leads directly the major downside I see to client-side font
>> handling: the font you want to use, and the code to understand and
>> use it, has to be present on the every client machine you use,
>> instead of it being enough to install it once on the server
> ...or conversely, the fonts have to be installed on every display,
> instead of just once on the client machine along with the application
> that's using them.

True enough.  Whether it's an upside or a downside for you depends on
which of those sketches better describes your use case.

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