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

[Andre Schmidt]

that would be the other "osx way" to install stuff ;)

btw. are we talking about some particular font ?
as the X11 package in OSX contains Bitstream & Co fonts, IIRC

.andre

On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 23:24 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 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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