On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:59:29 -0700, Don Ferguson wrote about "[PageStreamSupport] Re: Font problems".
Hello Don Ferguson,
> <<snip>>
> w>> ..... Each file
>; w>> therein ends in the suffix '.ttf' which must surely indicates 'TrueType
> w>> Font'. So you can use those guys in PageStream5 but I'm guessing that they
>; w>> will only confuse PageStream4.
>
> w> I've only been reading this out of interest, but I did download the
> w> fonts and found the ttf files. On my system I had the otag files.
>
> Hold it! The above tells me that you've removed from 'Fonts:' all those '.otag'
> and '.font' files such as (for example)
That's correct.
> DejaVu Sans Bold.otag
> DejaVu Sans Bold.font
>
> If so, that will screw things up here since both Yam and Aweb, and some of the
> 'system' stuff, use fonts from the Bitstream collection. I checked! Without
> them -- the '.otag' and '.font' files -- Yam substitutes something but I much
>; prefer the Bitstream guys.
Ah, but there's the difference. I didn't delete them from the
"SYS:FONTS" directory, just the PGS Fonts directory.
> w> So,
> w> I removed them and replaced them with the ttf fonts and they work fine
>; w> with PGS 4.
>
> So .... to use the "DejaVu Sans Bold" example above, you removed the two files
> noted above from 'Fonts:'and replaced them with (for example)
>
> DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
>
> ? And thereafter you had access to the font "DejaVu Sans Bold" in PageStream4?
> What did you add to the list "Installed Font Drawers" in PageStream4 in order
> that it could access those .ttf files in 'Fonts:' ?
Yes, that's correct. In fact, if you have the fonts directory added to
the SYS:Fonts (add) directory, I think every application will be able
to use them.
> w> Of course, you have to have the ttf.library, which can be found on
> w> Aminet.
>
> Of course, I did not have the 'ttf.library' but I got it from Aminet as you
> suggested. Thanks for that! I have now 'ttf.library' version "0.8.5.020
>; (05/07/2002)" in Sys:Libs. I grabbed the 68020 cpu version as I think that is
> what OS4.0 emulates. Anyway, with that installed I was able to access four
>; 'Gentium' fonts, the ones that were in the directory 'Gentium102' I think. With
>; those four .ttf files in a temporary directory, I added that directory to the
> list of "Installed Font Drawers" and Pagestream4 was able to access and use
> them without the GR intervening. However, those four fonts have to be amongst
> the world's ugliest fonts!!
>
> I tried the same device with a family of Bitstream fonts, but they immediately
> destroyed PageStream4, but that may be because of the corrupt data in the
> intial download. At this moment IBrowse is attempting to download the
> PagestreamFonts.lha package after another failure by Aweb. Hmmmmmm!
>
> Hallelujah! iBrowse completely the download with NO complaints. Correct number
> of bytes too!
>;
> So I did the same with the fonts in "Bitstream Vera" and 'DejaVu' and 'MyOpen'
> families. The first two were okay in the sense that the various fonts appeared
> in "Set Fonts"; and I could use them without an invading GR. But the first
> choice in the MyOpen family caused an immediate crash! This MyOpen problem has
> also been observed by Bart. In both "Bitstream Vera" and 'DejaVu' I tried at
> least two fonts with success, but did not bother with the rest. However .....
>
> Each of the Gentium, Bitstream Vera, and DejaVu fonts that I tested were ugly,
> jaggedy things that looked impossibly crude in comparison with such 'regulars'
> as Times-Normal or Garamond-Normal. Perhaps they were intended to be used only
>; with PageStream5! Perhaps I installed the wrong ttf.library! The date on the
> ttf.library is 05/07/2002 which certainly predates OS4.0!
I can't comment on any of the above, as I still only(!) use OS3.9 ;)
> Now Wurzel, I suppose you are going to point out next that all those fonts,
> which I've just panned, look beautiful on your setup, and, when printed, are
> equally
> elegant. I've not bothered with attempting to print them -- yet.
I can't say I've really noticed on the particular fonts but I don't
have the trouble you seem to have.
So, in a nutshell, I have my SYS:Fonts which is untouched.
I have separate directories for TTF, PSFonts and added those to the
paths AmigaOS searches for Fonts:
In PGS, I added SYS:Fonts, TTF and PSFonts.
However, even Wordworth can use TTF or PS fonts, in addition, it uses
it's own font directories too.
As I said, providing you have ttf.library and the font directories set
up, you shouldn't have any problem.
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