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

[Andre Schmidt]

Hi,

i got a new job as osx admin (among others) for a while now, and we are
using a particular font as "corporate design". so to ease my job for new
osx clients, i made a .pkg that installs the fonts to /Library/Fonts.
the fonts work rightaway without needing to restart or recache (just
like windowsxp)

if you dont want to install fonts to system library (eg. you dont want
to use admin rights) you can allso install the fonts to ~/Library/Fonts

but the coolest would be to be able to use the fonts from inside the pd
dir, without touching any system configs or dirs. but i dont know if
thats possible.
(like pdf uses embedded fonts, but i assume that pdf doesnt use the
system font render system ?)

cheers
andre



On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 00:38 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> Good point, Pd-extended is already using an installer on Windows, so  
> it can just install the font in the proper location, %SYSTEMROOT%\Fonts
> 
> That leaves Mac OS X, which is tricky since it needs to be inside the  
> Mac OS X .app package.
> 
> .hc
> 
> On Mar 27, 2007, at 6:14 PM, David Powers wrote:
> 
> > 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:
> >>
> >> > 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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