On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 05:23:52PM +0200, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 03:30:56PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > >>>>> "Enrico" == Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Enrico> No, and this is most astonishing, the thing seems to survive a > > Enrico> reboot. I tried to find whether the info is stored in the > > Enrico> registry, but could not find anything. > > > > Enrico> However, I investigated further and it turned out that what I > > Enrico> said occurs on Vista but it does not occur on Win2k. Don't > > Enrico> know about XP. > > > > I read somewhere that vista does not need fonts to be explicitly > > installed. So it is different from xp in this respect. > > No, I don't think so: > http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2006/08/27/726378.aspx > > and here: > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534231.aspx > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms533937.aspx > > Vista is explicitely mentioned, so this is a bug on Vista. > > I can make AddFontResource(Ex) work only when I put the fonts in > a precise location on disk, and given that this location is > "C:\cygwin\usr\local\share\lyx\fonts", i.e., the path where they > got initially installed with lyx 1.4.4, I presume that once you > used some fonts with those functions, you cannot move them > somewhere else anymore. Even after a reboot. Ouch.
Just for the records, I discovered that the font files must have the executable flag set, otherwise they are not found, unless they and all of their path components have proper ACLs. However, I can only guarantee that this happens on thursday with a full moon. Don't know in other conditions... -- Enrico
