[mythtvnz] MHEG font (was re: Update on the RedButton engine support)

[Steven Ellis]

Craig Box wrote:
> Steven Ellis wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, April 14, 2007 5:44 pm, Craig Box wrote:
>>     
>>>>     It is so handy having the two engines to compare against. Sadly the
>>>>     licence for the official font is a bit to much at the moment. Just
>>>>     have to get the closest match we can.
>>>>
>>>> How much is it?
>>>>         
>>> Why would you want to use a different font than the rest of MythTV?
>>>       
>> It would just be for the Interactive TV. The font licence details are at -
>> http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/tiresias_licensing.html
>>     
>
> And it's not provided on the stream?
>   
It has to be embedded in the STB. In AU ABC have been transmitting it in
their MHP datastream which is very unusual.
> http://screenfont.ca/fonts/today/Tiresias/
>
> Whole heap of complaint about that font there :-)  Unfortunately their
> replacement seems not to have materialised.
>   


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