[PD] [PD-dev] including a font file with Pd-extended

[David Powers]

On Windows installing the font with a batch file would be trivial.

If you made some file "Install.bat" it could copy the font to the
correct directory, and also run the registry script you currently use,
at the same time.

~David

On 3/27/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> On Mar 27, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Patco wrote:
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> > Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit :
> >> The last step in sorting the cross-platform font issue is finding
> >> a  way of including the font file for the Windows and Mac OS X
> >> packages.
> >>
> >> Anyone know how to make Tk look for fonts in a specific directory?
> >>
> >> .hc
> >>
> > I don't think you can't do this but it's possible to put a specific
> > font into the X server fonts directory, and doing a font mapping
> > like in this neat tcl-tk application:
> > http://xstick.e-artisan.org/
> >
> > also you might be interested by this:
> > http://wiki.tcl.tk/470
>
> On Debian and Ubuntu, it'll be very easy to support since the
> Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font is in the package system.  I think that
> font is also included in any GNOME install, so that covers most GNU/
> Linux users.
>
> The hard part is Windows and Mac OS X.  We could require people to
> install the font seperately, but I'd rather have it just work out of
> the box.
>
> .hc
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