reduce jar size by invisibly replacing fonts #202
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This PR should remove about 2.7 MB from the final jar without changing the rendering of any fonts. It would still be possible to remove arial.ttf by fully embracing jf, but it's not really worth it.
I have not removed h12p or h20b because the savings are only 2.8 KB and it's kind of mean to do to them.
Before & After Arial Bold was replaced with Helvetica-Bold (the map window is the only place this was used):
After image of non-native notification bubbles (very acceptable)
The glyphs I chose to include in the Symbola font (edited with Fontforge):