[PC-BSD Testing] MS Font PBI not working?
Jeff
dejamuse at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 25 11:47:03 PDT 2009
At one point I had a font manager app, but I can't find it anymore, though it wasn't very good anyway. Maybe it was an app I had installed myself, perhaps in KDE3 - can't recall. There are some listed with KDE but they're not KDE4 yet.
--- On Tue, 8/25/09, Fabrizio Parrella <fabrizio at bibivu.com> wrote:
From: Fabrizio Parrella <fabrizio at bibivu.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, 2:41 PM
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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