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[Kristina Hoeppner <1381290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

from Aaron on Bug #1292301:

The way the Google Fonts system is set up by Google, does not require
you to download anything. It's all done via CSS Urls that point at
Google's servers, or something along those lines. So why do we need to
upload a ZIP file? If I remember correctly, it's so that we can have the
font files sitting on the web server, so that the server can use them to
generate the skin thumbnail images.

The thing is... even that isn't really necessary. We could just ask for
the Google font URL stuff, and then fetch the font files using curl. But
I didn't have time to fix that when we went live with skins version 1.0,
so that's how it currently is. But we should really fix it at some
point.

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: Confirmed


** Tags: depreciate

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1381290

Title:
  Deprecate installing Google web fonts and rather call them directly

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  from Aaron on Bug #1292301:

  The way the Google Fonts system is set up by Google, does not require
  you to download anything. It's all done via CSS Urls that point at
  Google's servers, or something along those lines. So why do we need to
  upload a ZIP file? If I remember correctly, it's so that we can have
  the font files sitting on the web server, so that the server can use
  them to generate the skin thumbnail images.

  The thing is... even that isn't really necessary. We could just ask
  for the Google font URL stuff, and then fetch the font files using
  curl. But I didn't have time to fix that when we went live with skins
  version 1.0, so that's how it currently is. But we should really fix
  it at some point.

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