How do I upload fonts to krita? (I use Windows 10 btw)
Fonts are handled through your OS. Every font you install in Windows, will become available in apps that can use them.
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That was fast, thanks!
A side effect is that if you open the krita file on another device which doesn’t have the font installed, it looks different because a default font gets loaded instead. As a workaround I convert a copy of the text layers to paint layers when I’m done.
Yes… We’ve considered making it possible to embed fonts in .kra files, which is technically really easy to do – but that would give a lot of copyright issues since most fonts are not free in any way.
Even if you have font installed on all your computer, if logical screen DPI is different on your computer, the result will be completely different from one computer to another one.
So, now I always try to think to keep a raster copy of vector layer with fonts…
I’m curious about this.
If fonts are embedded in .kra files, is Krita team is responsive if someone use the software to embed a font under license?
What’s the difference with someone that will use a copyrighted image on a layer for example?
Grum999
I guess you mean responsible, but the answer is “we don’t know”. A quick google gives plenty of hits, though it’s hard to make a summary. One thing is sure:
A font is not an image: a font is actually a program, it’s code. So the licensing works in a completely different way. I think that whether we or the user gets in trouble, it’s best to avoid the issue. If you need to edit an image with text on two computers, get two licenses for the font and install it on both…
Yes, sorry 
There’s an interesting point of view from Microsoft about this subject (Ok this is Microsoft, not the best for open source but I think they have good lawyers…)
Don’t know if it’s really easy to check this or not because on my side, I’m not really able to determinate where, in my file system, a font is stored 
Qt doesn’t provide any information about original font file (or I missed something 
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Another interesting article about this subject:
https://kb.itextpdf.com/home/it7kb/ebooks/itext-7-converting-html-to-pdf-with-pdfhtml/chapter-7-frequently-asked-questions-about-pdfhtml/why-can-t-i-embed-a-font-due-to-licensing-restrictions
Anyway, it seems the trick is to check the embedding permission and exclude fonts for which license doesn’t allow embedding.
And I took a look, LibreOffice allows to embed fonts in ODF documents.
But I don’t think that’s a functionality with high priority, even if it could be a great thing 
Grum999
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