Re: Finding Fonts

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On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 11:34 -0400, Dennis Payne wrote:
> Ostrich Riders failed to work on Mint because of the hard-coded path
> to
> the font file. I asked on the FreeGameDev forum what is the best way
> to
> find a font file. In general the response was don't bother just
> include
> the font with your game. I know Fedora and other distributions don't
> like that. I decided to write up an article talking about changing
> Ostrich Riders to use fontconfig library. Hopefully it will encourage
> other developers to handle fonts in a more distribution friendly way.
> 
> http://identicalsoftware.com/games/ostrichriders2
> 

Looks great!

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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