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On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Jason White (whitewaterssoftwareinfo AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> There is no need to depend on the availability of external fonts on a
> particular system. I believe the lowest overhead way of doing this
> would be to convert a true-type font to primitives (lines, arcs,
> circles) and package it as a set of footprints in the layout database.
> All that is needed is a script to convert a range of characters in a
> true-type font into a library of footprints. That way, when a text
> primitive is inserted into a design, the graphical editor just inserts
> the converted footprints for each character.

Also, depending on external fonts is a bad idea for PCBs because a font 
change may alter the layout, which is something a layout software should 
never do.  If you prefer true-type fonts (IIRC, most people who I talked 
to prefered stroke fonts for PCBs), extending the font format to support 
filled shapes defined by lines and arcs (true-type fonts don't support 
proper circles) sounds like a viable solution.