[PD] pdp_text

[Bill Sack]

hi again,
actually, i discovered that including the full path to fonts works just 
fine, a la:
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|font /usr/share/fonts/ttfonts/gothic/24 (

i've tried quite a few .ttfs and haven't yet found one that doesn't work.

-b

Yves Degoyon wrote:
> hi,
> 
> you have to issue a "make install" in PiDiP folder
> so that it installs fonts in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
> ( you can also check this manually )
> 
> PiDiP ( Imlib2 in fact ) will not support any ttf files,
> the one provided is allright but some won't work,
> it's still a mystery to me .. .
> 
> cheers,
> 
> s
> e
> v
> y
> 
> 
> Bill Sack wrote:
> 
>> hi,
>> i'm trying PiDiP's pdp_text object from version 0.10.1 - pidip loads 
>> with this message:
>>
>> pdp_text: version 0.1 : text rendering object written by ydegoyon at free.fr
>> pdp_text : severe error : could not load default font : no rendering !!!
>>
>> pdp_text responds to the font message this way:
>>
>> pdp_text : could not load font : >helmetr/14<
>> pdp_text : could not load font : >helmetr/5<
>>
>> i have imlib2 from .rpms:
>> [root at blini bin]# rpm -qa |grep imlib2
>> imlib2-devel-1.0.6-1
>> imlib2-1.0.6-1
>>
>> what do i need to do to get this object to work?
>> oh yes: i'm on linux obviously, RH7.2 w/ some updates.
>>
>> thanks,
>> bill
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