[PC-BSD Testing] MS Font PBI not working?
Fabrizio Parrella
fabrizio at bibivu.com
Tue Aug 25 11:41:57 PDT 2009
well, can we do this by default on may of the new PBIs ?
maybe even copy the fonts from those PBIs to the system folder when not
already there. I think that it will increase the user experience A LOT,
as currently I am having very similar issues with fonts that do not
always show to everybody.
Fabry
Kris Moore wrote:
>
>
> Thats not the right link:
>
> # cd /Programs/Firefox*/lib
> # rm X11
> # ln -s /PCBSD/local/lib/X11 X11
>
> All the fonts are located in /PCBSD/local/lib/X11 on the system, you
> have to link this into the PBIs lib/ directory
> so that it "shares" / uses the same fonts directory.
>
> --
> Kris Moore
> PC-BSD Software
>
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Jeff wrote:
>
>> That didn't work.
>>
>> I can't see how /PCBSD/local/etc/fonts connects to
>> /Programs/Firefox3.5.2/lib/X11/fonts
>>
>> Don't I need a link from the latter to the former?
>>
>> More confusing...
>>
>> --- On Tue, 8/25/09, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> From: Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org>
>> Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] MS Font PBI not working?
>> To: "PC-BSD Testing list" <testing at lists.pcbsd.org>
>> Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 12:15 PM
>>
>>
>>
>> Ahh, ok solved this here.
>>
>> You'll need to do this for all PBIs you want to use the system
>> fonts:
>>
>> # cd /Programs/<PBI>/lib
>> # rm X11
>> # ln -s /PCBSD/local/lib/X11 X11
>>
>> I did this here, and now my fonts in FF work perfectly. I'm
>> guessing you have same
>> issue with OO as well, the etc/fonts link doesn't seem to
>> matter in this case.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kris Moore
>> PC-BSD Software
>>
>> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Jeff wrote:
>>
>> > Also have this path to X11 fonts:
>> /usr/X11R6/share/fonts/TrueType
>> >
>> > Is there some way to centralize all the fonts? The contents
>> of /PCBSD/local/etc/fonts are not TTF files.
>> >
>> > Confusing...
>> >
>> > --- On Tue, 8/25/09, Jeff <dejamuse at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > From: Jeff <dejamuse at yahoo.com>
>> > Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] MS Font PBI not working?
>> > To: "PC-BSD Testing list" <testing at lists.pcbsd.org>
>> > Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 11:27 AM
>> >
>> > That didn't work. The link was made, but OO still
>> cannot see system fonts.
>> >
>> > BTW, I discovered this because Verdana was not
>> available to Firefox, which is the most ubiquitous web font.
>> >
>> > --- On Tue, 8/25/09, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > From: Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org>
>> > Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] MS Font PBI not
>> working?
>> > To: "PC-BSD Testing list" <testing at lists.pcbsd.org>
>> > Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 9:16 AM
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Jeff,
>> >
>> > The font PBI installs fonts to the system folder
>> properly, but it looks like OO, and probably the other PBIs
>> > aren't
>> > looking in the system folder for fonts. Give this
>> a shot and let me know if it fixes it:
>> >
>> > cd /Programs/OpenOffice*/etc
>> > ln -s /PCBSD/local/etc/fonts fonts
>> >
>> > start OO, do you have the fonts now? If so, I'll
>> get that fix put into the PBIs right away.
>> >
>> > As for KDE 4.3.0, it'll be included with PC-BSD
>> 8.0 later this year. Its a large update, since it moves us to
>> QT
>> > 4.5
>> > and I'm having to fix up a lot of our tools to
>> work on it :)
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Kris Moore
>> > PC-BSD Software
>> >
>> > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Jeff wrote:
>> >
>> > > I have the MS True-type font PBI installed, but
>> can't see any of the fonts in FF3 or OpenOffice or Abi Word.
>> > Where exactly are they
>> > > supposed to be available?
>> > >
>> > > I presume there's no UI for this PBI and it
>> just installs fonts somewhere.
>> > >
>> > > Every application seems to have its own set of
>> fonts with some that apparently come with KDE. There are lots
>> > of other available fonts
>> > > out there but there's no good way of centrally
>> managing them and installing them in KDE it seems, complicated
>> > by the different font
>> > > packaging techniques. Seems to me there used to
>> be some KDE font manager/installer app but I can't find it in
>> > the menu, and from what I
>> > > remember, it wasn't especially useful.
>> > >
>> > > What to do?
>> > >
>> > > P.S., When might we expect an upgrade to KDE 4.3?
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
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