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> ...
> Personally I was never happy with the PCB font elements stored inside
> of the PCB files. For small PCBs the font occupies more space in the
> PCB file than the real layout. I would try to avoid that.

Would you be happy with same solution but fonts stored internally instead?

> Of course there are two problems: Portability and the fact that
> automatically converted fonts may look not really good in gerber
> format. I think the first point is not too important, fonts may look a
> bit different on different systems. One problem can arise when the font
> in the gerber file is larger and covers pure copper areas.

It is not visibly important fonts look different but distances may be wrong. I guess it would be a good idea to convert font to the same kind of simple drawing primitives used for the other parts. In such case font graphics be accessed the same way as other drawing primitives for example for the design rule checks.