Re: Facing problem in seeing Unicode fonts in Pagestream

Here are the answers:

1. I am using Linux --> Fedora Core 4 & Debian 4.
2. I am using Indic Unicode Truetype font --> Gargi, Aksharyogini.
3. I tired to import text file which is typed in Unicode font - Gargi.
But I saw boxes only. I couldn't see the text.
4. I have install that font. For this I followed following step:

a. copied gargi.ttf to /usr/share/fonts/
b. cd /usr/share/fonts
c. mkfontdir
d. mkfontscale
e. fc-cache
5. That font work in gedit or yudit.

PLease tell me if anything I am missing.
Please help me in this.

Thanks for looking into this issue.
NeeleshG

--- In PageStreamSupport%40yahoogroups.com">PageStreamSupportyahoogroups.com, Tim Doty <drakki...> wrote:
&gt;
> On Thursday 30 August 2007, neel_gurjar2007 wrote:
&gt; > Hi,
> >
>; > I have downloaded Pagestream demo version and I want to buy as soon
>; > as. But I am facing a major issue in this demo. I cannot see Indic
&gt; > Unicode fonts.
&gt;
> As PageStream works on multiple platforms which are you using?
Windows? Linux?
&gt;
> If you are using Windows, which version? If linux, which distro?
>
> What do you mean by "canot see Indic Unicode fonts";?
>
> I don't use any Indic fonts myself, but I have gone even farther out
there by
> using Sumerian cuneiform which isn't even in the basic multilingual
plane of
> unicode and that works for me (to the extent that unicode actually
covers
> Sumerian cuneiform...)
>
> If the issue is inputting text, PageStream makes no special
provision for
> typing alternate character sets instead relying on the capability of
the
> underlying operating system.
>
> Which fonts are you using? What format are the fonts (truetype I'm
guessing
> based on you saying they are Unicode)? What is the actual encoding
(are they
> really Unicode)? Are they installed on the operating system or via
> PageStream's installation? They should work either way but it *is*
different.
&gt;
> Tim Doty
>;

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On Thursday 30 August 2007, neel_gurjar2007 wrote:
&gt; Here are the answers:
>
>; 1. I am using Linux --> Fedora Core 4 & Debian 4.

Okay -- for reference my main platform is Kubuntu 7.10

> 2. I am using Indic Unicode Truetype font --> Gargi, Aksharyogini.

I'll try to locate those

> 3. I tired to import text file which is typed in Unicode font - Gargi.
&gt; But I saw boxes only. I couldn't see the text.

How was the text file encoded? If it wasn't UTF-8 (there are different ways to
encode Unicode) that will cause problems.

> 4. I have install that font. For this I followed following step:
&gt;
> a. copied gargi.ttf to /usr/share/fonts/
&gt; b. cd /usr/share/fonts
&gt; c. mkfontdir
> d. mkfontscale
> e. fc-cache
> 5. That font work in gedit or yudit.

Okay, so installed for the system. As I'm sure you are aware it will only
become available to applications that are started after you completed the
steps in 4.

Are the Indic fonts showing in your font list in PageStream? Meaning, when you
start PageStream and create a new document you should have:

- a tool box
- a tool bar
- the document window
- the edit palette
- plus any other palettes you open from the Windows menu

If you have the text tool selected the Edit palette shows the text attributes
of currently selected text. Towards the left end of the Edit palette there
are two buttons stacked vertically: P and C. P is for paragraph attributes
and C is for character attributes. If C is selected immediately to the right
of that button is the font selector.

Are your Indic fonts listed there?

If you select the text and select an Indic font how does the text display?

For your information when cutting and pasting to and from PageStream and
another application I have found that linux applications are happiest pasting
Unicode text copied from Firefox. So if, for example, I want to copy/paste a
text snippet from Open Office I will paste it into the location bar of
Firefox and from there copy and paste it into PageStream. The reverse works
well, too. Clipboards are funny things and different applications treat the
copy and paste clipboard operations differently.

Tim Doty

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