Re: gnome-print and fonts (Gnumeric)

[Bart Kuik <kuik rendo dekooi nl>]

Thanks! 

The trick with the editing of the perl-script did the whole job. But do
you know why the fonts are really smooth in the print-preview and very
crappy in the application?? Or is that (amongst others) a bug in the
canvas used by Gnumeric?

grtz,
Bart


On 27 Mar 2001 22:00:39 +0200, Lauris Kaplinski wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> If you compile gnome-print from source, there is an script in base directory, that
> you can execute (it is executed by make install anyways):
> 
> perl run-gnome-font-install installer/gnome-fonts-install . .
> 
> It should extract font locations from your ghostscript installation - but I have told, that
> sometimes it fails on that. In latter case you either:
> - edit perl script by hand and add urw font path to default paths (unless it is already
>   there)
> - run the actual installer program by hand (but its syntax for first-time installation is
>   quite complex):
> 
> installer/gnome-font-install [options] [directories]
> 
> --debug - print out debugging information (useful)
> --target - resulting fontmap file (should be $prefix/share/fonts/fontmap2)
> --afm-path=PATH - base path for afm files (you can specify more than 1 option) -
>   look discussion about fontmap files
> --pfb-path=PATH - base path for pfb files (same)
> --assignment=KEY,PATH - specify base path for keyed relative file locations
> --fontmap-path=PATH - directory to look for fontmap files
> 
> Additionally directories are scanned for installable fonts (you need
> at least one afm + one pfb to create font)
> 
> fontmap files are distributed together with gnome-print, and these
> specify some almost standard fonts + locations (like X and TeX ones).
> In addition fontmap files specify relative positions of fonts. These
> can be simply relative dirs (in which case --afm-path or --pfb-path
> will be used as base). Or these can be arbitrary keys (only key
> "ghostscript" is used in gnome-print distribution) - in which case the base(s)
> should be given by --assignment option.
> Plus they specify URW font aliases. Namely URW fonts do not have "real"
> names - like Helvetica due to licensing problems. fontmap files define
> necessary association between afm with real font name and pfb with
> "fake" one, so gnome-print can use fonts with real names.
> 
> In my system (RH 7.0) installer is run initially as (in gnome-print build dir):
> 
> installer/gnome-font-install \
>   --debug \
>   --afm-path=/usr/share/fonts/afms \
>   --pfb-path=/usr/share/fonts \
>   --target=./fonts/fontmap2 \
>   --assignment=ghostscript,/usr/share/ghostscript/5.50 \
>   --assignment=ghostscript,/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript \
>   --assignment=ghostscript,/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 \
>   --fontmap-path=./fonts
> 
> Fortunately:
> This syntax is only needed for initial install (you need font description files to specify
> aliases). Later, if you want to add fonts, you simply run:
> 
> gnome-font-install --target=PATH [directories]
> 
> Where target is resulting font database file ($prefix/share/fonts/fontmap2 or
>   ~/gnome/fonts/fontmap)
> And directories are arbitrary number of directories, containing afm and pfb files.
> 
> Or, if using binary packages, your distribution maintainer should have set up
> correct installation process in postinit scripts.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Lauris Kaplinski
> 
> 
> On 27 Mar 2001 19:20:27 +0000, Bart Kuik wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've installed my whole XFree86 + Gnome-desktop from sources on my
> > Slackware-box, but Gnumeric (0.64) won't work coz it can't find some
> > fonts. I know this is a problem of gnome-print (0.27), and I managed
> > once to install the URW-font package but i don't remember how. Only
> > thing I remember is that I used a manual on the www (anywhere on
> > gnome.org). I already found it again (dunno where exactly) but this time
> > I don't understand it or it just doesn't work. Other problem was that
> > the fonts in that package are few and crappy. Can anyone tell me how to
> > install them anyway? and maybe some other free fonts?
> > 
> > Bart
> > 
> > 
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