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[Aaron Wells <1381290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As an added benefit, if we stop requiring file uploads for fonts, then
it would probably be secure to allow users to select their own Google
fonts directly by URL (assuming that the Google fonts service does some
security checking on the fonts they list in their directory), instead of
relying entirely on admins uploading them.

** Tags added: skins usability

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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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