[PC-BSD Testing] MS Font PBI not working?
Jeff
dejamuse at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 25 12:00:05 PDT 2009
Same here, but those system fonts do not include the MS fonts from the PBI which are not in that X11 system directory, but rather in: /PCBSD/local/etc/fonts
--- 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, 2:54 PM
Here's what I have for FF, and it works just fine:
# ls -al /Programs/Firefox3.5.2/lib/X11
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 20 Aug 25 12:11 /Programs/Firefox3.5.2/lib/X11 -> /PCBSD/local/lib/X11
When I start firefox and go to edit -> preferences -> content, and look at fonts, all my system fonts now show up.
--
Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Jeff wrote:
> I made the link as you said, from FF to the system X11 directory, but FF cannot see the MS fonts which are in: /PCBSD/local/etc/fonts.
> Those two directories aren't connected:
>
> /PCBSD/local/etc/fonts
>
> /Programs/Firefox3.5.2/lib/X11/fonts (where X11/fonts is the system directory, linked to FF)
>
> --- 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, 2:20 PM
>
>
>
> 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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