[PD] DejaVu Font: Shipping & using on W32

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

howdy, I'll insist here as well, again, I like that we're looking in to how
to install the same fonts for all platforms, but I'm really concerned about
patches not looking the same in vanilla and in Extended/Purr Data.

what are the challenges in making it not only work well in cross platforms,
but also in this different pd flavors?

cheers

2017-02-14 9:35 GMT-02:00 Lucas Cordiviola <lucarda27 at hotmail.com>:

> Ok, cool.
>
>
> I add the previous code links here for us to remember:
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> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/
> ms533820(v=vs.85).aspx
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> http://code.activestate.com/lists/tcl-core/8158/#sthash.qJEhQALT.dpuf
> <http://code.activestate.com/lists/tcl-core/8158/#sthash.qJEhQALT.dpuf>
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> Mensaje telepatico asistido por maquinas.
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> *From:* Dan Wilcox <danomatika at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, February 13, 2017 8:48 PM
> *To:* Lucas Cordiviola
> *Cc:* Miller Puckette; Pd-List
> *Subject:* Re: DejaVu Font: Shipping & using on W32
>
> Cool, good to know that in theory it works. I also found a related
> solution which uses a different extension do the same thing:
> http://wiki.tcl.tk/22262
>
> However, I’d say that requiring a tcl/tk extension may not be the best
> overall solution since historically Pd has avoided requiring anything
> beyond the base tcl/tk.
>
> A possible best approach is take the example C code for the forum post and
> make a *tiny* custom extension that is built only on Windows and loaded by
> the tk gui in order to load the private font. I don’t think we can simply
> add the font loading code to the core itself since it’s a separate process
> from the gui.
>
> In any case, this is something I can look into after I put together a
> triple boot machine to test some things on different platforms, including
> the vanilla autotools build on win.
>
> On Feb 13, 2017, at 10:43 AM, Lucas Cordiviola <lucarda27 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Following Dan`s suggestion to ship & use a font without installing it, I
> came to a very straight-forward method for w32.
>
> Tested & working.
>
> It uses a Tcl Windows API extension. (600KB)
>
> twapi web:
> http://twapi.sourceforge.net/v4.1/installation.html
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> twapi package:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/twapi/files/Current%
> 20Releases/Tcl%20Windows%20API/twapi-4.1.27/
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> added lines on "pd-gui.tcl" @line 24:
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> # adding dejavu fonts on mswindows
> package require twapi
> twapi::AddFontResourceEx DejaVuSansMono.ttf
> twapi::AddFontResourceEx DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf
>
> 0000000
>
> Don't know how to exclude this "package require" for the other OSs.
> The .ttf were placed on pd/bin for simplicity.
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