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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I think that is only the X11 from Darwin Ports, the X11 from Apple  
does not include those fonts.  The font in question is Bitstream Vera  
Sans Mono.

.hc

On Mar 29, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Andre Schmidt wrote:

> 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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