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> There is no need to depend on the availability of external fonts on a
> particular system.

I think converting a TTF font is not a good idea, partly because of
copyright issues and partly because UTF8 fonts can be HUGE (thousands
of glyphs) and that's a lot of data to store uncompressed.  And that's
per font!  We should also have a way to support multiple fonts (it's
easy to imagine a board needing regular, bold, and symbol at least).

Better to find a redistributable TTF font and include it as-is
(perhaps the Liberation fonts), or provide some sort of font
substitution table.  I know people will complain about substitutions
having different metrics, but if we base our work on redistributable
fonts with standard metrics, at least on a per-project basis it
shouldn't be a problem.