On 30/03/2019 21:56, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
Given that it's taken years to get approval for -f, I'm reluctant to
overload the task with too many additional features at the outset,
though perhaps as a separate scope of work it may be worth pursuing if
we can find someone to implement it.
What sorts of things are you building that use specific fonts in
generated graphics on the server?
In reality, so far, none.
In principle - perhaps many, but I wouldn't know :-)
My current project is to build a Graphing Library (driven by a specific
desktop app that I'm developing for personal/family use). Neither
ChartsEngine nor ChartMaker is suitable (they don't support the specific
kind of hybrid graph I need), so I'm building an open-source LC Graphing
library.
There's no reason why it couldn't run on LCServer (and good reason why
it might be useful - the app I'm building as the primary use-case could
easily be run on the family web-site). So it would generate the graphics
inside a group, take a snapshot of that, and include that JPG file in
the web site output.
The library allows for titles, axis labels, grid/tick labels, a legend,
etc. - all of which allow setting of text size, color, font, etc. - so
could require specific fonts.
Right now it doesn't all work (I'm slowly fighting my through various
difficulties in the Server implementation - I think caused by the fact
that there are no inherited properties from the card/stack, but more
likely caused by my bugs :-), and indeed even the desktop version is
incomplete; but I hope to have it ready for beta release sometime this
Spring.
And then I can get back to actually building the real app that I wanted
in the first place :-)
Alex.
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