[Cooker] drakfont problem
hi, i'm trying to convert my windows ttf fonts into linux-usable fonts with drakfont... and i have problems with it because for example in openoffice i can't use the special latin2 characters, all i get are small rectangles... with some of the 'default' fonts, like times i get the latin2 characters ( like 's' with an inverted '^' ). so i checked the conversion process again and found messages like: Using language 'latin1' for Unicode fonts so maybe this is my problem.. how can i change this behaviour to use latin2? thanks, gabor -- That's life for you, said McDunn. Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving something more than that thing loves them. And after awhile you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more. -- R. Bradbury, The Fog Horn
Re: [Cooker] Drakfont problem
On Thursday 21 February 2002 12:33, you wrote: It seems that drakfont requires groff for the proces of importing windows fonts. and it doesnt get installed by default. Should it be included in the list of Requires inside the rpm? Regards Mario drakfont also does not complete the fonts import where -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Feb 26 13:01 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf/fonts.dir should have an entry but have nothing in it. Only Type1 dir and its entries have been successfully generated. OpenOffice were able to use the new fonts but KDE and KOffice did not have the new fonts. I'm using Mandrake 8.2 Beta3.
[Cooker] Drakfont problem
It seems that drakfont requires groff for the proces of importing windows fonts. and it doesnt get installed by default. Should it be included in the list of Requires inside the rpm? Regards Mario
Re: [Cooker] Drakfont problem
George Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently installed some fonts with drakfont. I discovered that drakfont chokes when selecting 'Add fonts' if the font path specified includes a directory name that has a space in it. Example: /home/user/My Fonts/ttfonts. Changing this to /home/user/My_Fonts/ttfonts solves the problem. all these problems are fixed in the new drakfont. on new drakxtools package. (today on cooker) /usr/sbin/drakfont don't forget to remove the old before. (drakfont.*.rpm ) regards. seb -- DUPONT Sebastien [EMAIL PROTECTED] EPITA Paris 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Cooker] Drakfont problem
I recently installed some fonts with drakfont. I discovered that drakfont chokes when selecting 'Add fonts' if the font path specified includes a directory name that has a space in it. Example: /home/user/My Fonts/ttfonts. Changing this to /home/user/My_Fonts/ttfonts solves the problem.
Re: [Cooker] Drakfont problem
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 19:24, George Mitchell wrote: I recently installed some fonts with drakfont. I discovered that drakfont chokes when selecting 'Add fonts' if the font path specified includes a directory name that has a space in it. Example: /home/user/My Fonts/ttfonts. Changing this to /home/user/My_Fonts/ttfonts solves the problem. The space surely needs to be escaped. Try entering /home/user/My\ Fonts/ttfonts =-= kk1
Re: [Cooker] Drakfont problem
On Sunday 09 December 2001 10:24, you wrote: I recently installed some fonts with drakfont. I discovered that drakfont chokes when selecting 'Add fonts' if the font path specified includes a directory name that has a space in it. Example: /home/user/My Fonts/ttfonts. Changing this to /home/user/My_Fonts/ttfonts solves the problem. No kidding. It sees the space as a seperator in the command, and therefore barfs. if you want to use spaces, Which I wouldn't recommend in the *NIX world, you need to escape it with a backslash. Ex: /home/user/My\ Fonts/ttfonts The backslash tells the shell to 'ignore' the following character and treat it as part of the string. -Dave
Re: [Cooker] Drakfont problem
Quel Qun wrote: On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 19:24, George Mitchell wrote: I recently installed some fonts with drakfont. I discovered that drakfont chokes when selecting 'Add fonts' if the font path specified includes a directory name that has a space in it. Example: /home/user/My Fonts/ttfonts. Changing this to /home/user/My_Fonts/ttfonts solves the problem. The space surely needs to be escaped. Try entering /home/user/My\ Fonts/ttfonts =-= kk1 Thanks, but I know that already. I could also do: /home/user/My Fonts/ttfonts in the quotation marks and probably get it to work also, but those users who are not shell users will not know that. I am a CLI user and I fixed it by modifying the directory names. begin_rant But I just think it could probably be easily fixed so that it could be 'point and click'. I think that is the point of Drakfont in the first place. We are trying to move this config stuff out of the CLI and into the GUI right? /end_rant
