(Sorry about the delay, modem trouble) Eric Dorland wrote: > * Justin B Rye ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> [...] Specifying an >> appropriate fontpath on the commandline doesn't help - the packaged >> rcfile takes priority. > > Are you sure the package rcfile takes priority? Looking at the code > this really doesn't seem to be the case.
Doh. You're quite right; I assume I was confused by the "NOTE" in gozer(1) under "RC FILES", which (clearly now I re-read it) applies only to extra rc-files specified on the commandline. I thought I'd done some trial runs to check this, but apparently if I did I misinterpreted the results. Still, that only eliminates one of the hoops users have to jump through, and not the "headline" one - it's still true that * the fontpath gozer searches "out of the box" is one that (on my system) contains absolutely no *.ttf files; * the particular default font it looks for there is not available in Debian (and is not the one mentioned in the man page - "default is 20thcent/16"); * even if I had downloaded the "helmetr" font myself I would have put it in /usr/local/fonts, not /usr/share/fonts; * oh, and here's one I forgot to mention: -p doesn't seem to work as advertised, it has to be --fontpath. Assuming there is some good reason gozer can't just default to using my standard X fontpath, it needs friendlier documentation. Since the missing font is a DFSG issue, a README.Debian would be a good place to start; it could explain the goings-on in changelog.Debian.gz, but more importantly it could give some examples of workable gozer invocations, such as gozer --text INPUT --fontpath ~/myfonts --font arial/16 output.png Note that the docs never directly state that you're free to use "output.png", "output.jpg" or whatever and let imlib2 vary the format to match the filename extension; my own first try was to say "output.img", in the expectation that there would be some default format, and the error message I got from that was the less than clear "Saving to file output.img failed". Fortunately I happened to notice that the --help output describes several options not covered by the man page, and the definition for the --stdout option hinted at the answer. And how *do* you ask for multiword fontnames like Courier New? There is no need for every single user to have to work quite so many things out by trial and error... -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]