Re: [Gnome-print] Installing non standard fonts

[Pere Pujal Carabantes <ppujal airtel net>]

Valek Filippov wrote:
> 
> > > The first about truetype fonts. Are supported yet? I have some that
> > > has
> > > the euro
> Lauris says that @yes, at least for sodipodi".
Well I will try to intall and test in gnumeric
> 
> > > The second: Can someone point me to a type1 font that contains not
> > > only
> > > the euro symbol but all the letters and that don't give problems
> > > whith
> > > gnome-print?.
> > > Note that I use  the iso8859-15 encoding
> As I can see euro-sign is in free URW fonts from ghostscript distribution (if you mean sign with unicode value U+20ac).
Yes I mean that, but ...
 Now I have download the gnu-gs-fonts-standard-6.0 and the only font that has the
euro is the Standard Symbols one, but even if I can install
automatically whith gnome-font-install I am unable to get the euro on
the screen or the printer (via gnumeric->gnome-print)

> Will I right, that iso8859-15 == iso8859-1 + Euro-sign ?
iso 8859-15 =iso8859-1+Euro+Zcaron+zcaron+... -currency- ...

I paste  a part of the diff from manual pages of both (I've find in the
package euro2.tgz)

[...]
< The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859 Latin-15,
which
---
> The following table displays the characters in ISO 8859 Latin-1, which
77c74
< 244	164	A4	¤	EURO SIGN
---
> 244	164	A4	¤	CURRENCY SIGN
79c76
< 246	166	A6	¦	CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
---
> 246	166	A6	¦	BROKEN BAR
81c78
< 250	168	A8	¨	SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
---
> 250	168	A8	¨	DIAERESIS
93c90
< 264	180	B4	´	CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
---
> 264	180	B4	´	ACUTE ACCENT
97c94
< 270	184	B8	¸	SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
---
> 270	184	B8	¸	CEDILLA
101,103c98,100
< 274	188	BC	¼	LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
< 275	189	BD	½	LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
< 276	190	BE	¾	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
---
> 274	188	BC	¼	VULGAR FRACTION ONE QUARTER
> 275	189	BD	½	VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF
> 276	190	BE	¾	VULGAR FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
[...]

Regards

Pere