Re: Abi ttf-fonts path

From: Austin Gonyou (austin@digitalroadkill.net)
Date: Mon Apr 08 2002 - 16:35:50 EDT

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    On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 10:23, Bronislaw Baraniecki wrote:
    > ---Reply to mail from Martin Sevior about Abi ttf-fonts path
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > It sounds extra for ISO-8859-1 fonts only!
    >
    > On my RedHat7.2 with abiword-0.99.3-1.i386.rpm or *.tar.gz (I tried
    > bothe) and polish LANG="pl_PL" env with type1 or ttf-fonts iso8859-2
    > enconding, the AW does refuse to find them. The path to fonts is
    > exactly as here or in the documentation is said
    > [/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/pl_PL (also .../pl_PL.ISO-8859-2) in first
    > case, and /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts/pl_PL (also ../pl_PL.ISO-8859-2) in
    > a second case].
    >
    > With ttf-fonts path I've got "fonts.scale" and "fonts.dir" with
    > ttmkfdir followed by tools "ttftool" and "ttfadmin.sh" found in
    > AbiSuite/bin directory. I also removed lines in "fonts.dir" and
    > "fonts.scale" files with other encodings except iso8859-2 which I left
    > untouched.
    >
    > Dispite of that AW could not see new fonts dir. Must say, I am realy
    > exhausted. I could not find a way to make AW to use ISO-8859-2 fonts.
    >
    > Best,
    >
    > Bronek
    >
    >
    >
    > >
    > > Hi Bernard,
    > > Thank you very much. To the developers, surely somebody could
    > > cook up a parl script or something to do this automatically? This has to
    > > be the most asked question we get on IRC and it would be great to include
    > > this as plugin or even a seperate script.
    > >
    > > ie:
    > >
    > > Choose: Tools->install TTF fonts, restart abiword.
    > >
    > > Cheers
    > >
    > > Martin
    > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Bernard Lambey wrote:
    > >
    > >> Well! I have my ttf fonts with my 0.99.3 AbiWord version !...
    > >> In spite of my bad english I was (correctly understood and) powerfully
    > >> helped by Anne Parker and Gabe de Jong, and they gave me the com-
    > >> plete solution. If I sum up that solution, we will have :
    > >> In order to substitute the Windows-ttf fonts to original AW fonts,
    > >> there are some things to do in a definite order :
    > >>
    > >> 1) Verify you have "ttftool and "ttfadmin.sh" in the AW binary principal
    > > directory
    > >> (for me it is : "/usr/local/bin") where is the wrapper "abiword", else,
    > > find them
    > >> to place here.
    > >> 2) go to folder where is directory "fonts" (the AbiWord fonts dir).
    > >> 3) create a new dir "SVGFontsType1"
    > >> 4) cut-paste all fonts from dir "fonts" to dir "SVGFontsType1"
    > >> 5) copy-paste the ".../windows/system/fonts" to dir "fonts"
    > >> 6) in a console, as "root", run the commands :
    > >> ...../fonts# ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
    > >> ...../fonts# mkfontdir
    > >> (to obtain here the both files : fonts.scale and fonts.dir)
    > >> 7) return to binary AbiWord dir, where is (important) "ttftool" to execute:
    > >> ...../bin# ttfadmin.sh /usr/local/share/AbiSuite/fonts
    > >>
    > >> ...and it is finished. When you will lauch AbiWord you will have all the good
    > >> ttf fonts used byu Windows...
    > >>
    > >> Extra!!!
    > >> Many thanks to Anne and Gabe.
    > >> Bernard Lambey
    > >>
    >
    > ---End reply
    > --
    > Bronislaw B. Baraniecki
    > <bemak@plejada.it.pl>
    > -----
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