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

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Thu Mar 29 05:24:18 CEST 2007


Maybe the Mac OS X .dmg should just include the font file and a link  
to the Fonts install folder...

.hc

On Mar 28, 2007, at 2:02 AM, Andre Schmidt wrote:

> 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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