provide a better default font for image CAPTCHA

soxofaan - May 16, 2008 - 09:43
Project:CAPTCHA
Version:HEAD
Component:Image Captcha (image_captcha)
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active
Description

The image CAPTCHA provides a rather crappy default font, which is some built-in PHP bitmap font. Admin has to upload an ttf him/herself to make the image CAPTCHA acceptable. The reason to not include some ttf fonts with the image CAPTCHA package are licensing issues.

But now there is the recently launched http://fontstruct.fontshop.com where you can easily create ttf fonts.
That site contains now a lot of fonts, made by its users, which are licensed under a creative commons license.
So we could now reconsider to provide some default font(s) with the image CAPTCHA package

#1

soxofaan - September 25, 2008 - 12:54

from http://drupal.org/node/312970#comment-1028572:

There are a lot of people making free fonts under various licences. The Bitstream Vera true type font, http://www.gnome.org/fonts/, has a BSD style licence allowing both inclusion and redistribution. You could include the font by renaming the text files to Vera.*, for example readme.txt to Vera.readme.txt, or you could include the whole Vera directory as a subdirectory and include fonts from subdirectories.

 
 

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