Hello list,
I'm having trouble with all versions of Pd I've tried (extended 0.39 and 0.40, also vanilla) getting it to recognize my Bistream Vera Sans Mono font. It's installed and I can use it in all my other apps, but Pd doesn't seem to want to find it.
It looks like it's located here:
/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraMono.ttf
If this is a font path issue, is there a flag to set the default font path? Or, if it's looking for the font in a specific place, can I put in a symbolic link there?
Thanks,
Matt
someone please correct me, if i am wrong, but i think, that pd is not aware of font-pathes. the very few times i had to deal with fonts and pd, was using fonts in gem. at least for [text3d]/[text2d], you need to put the font file to some place, where pd finds it (pretty much the same as you usually load a soundfile or an abstraction). either you specify the absolute or relative (from the patch) path to the font file, or you add the location of the font file to pd's search pathes, so that pd can find it.
roman
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 17:01 -0500, Matt Barber wrote:
Hello list,
I'm having trouble with all versions of Pd I've tried (extended 0.39 and 0.40, also vanilla) getting it to recognize my Bistream Vera Sans Mono font. It's installed and I can use it in all my other apps, but Pd doesn't seem to want to find it.
It looks like it's located here:
/usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/VeraMono.ttf
If this is a font path issue, is there a flag to set the default font path? Or, if it's looking for the font in a specific place, can I put in a symbolic link there?
Thanks,
Matt
Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
Roman Haefeli wrote:
someone please correct me, if i am wrong, but i think, that pd is not aware of font-pathes. the very few times i had to deal with fonts and
afaik the fonts findable by Gem, pdp and other libs and the fonts findable by Pd itself are 2 different things.
Gem for instance manually opens fonts and it does so via Pd's open-via-path feature (which searches all the searchpaths). if the specified font (file) does not exist, it will not display anything.
Pd otoh, does not use fonts at all, rather it asks(!) its graphical toolkit (tcl/tk) to use a certain font which delegates this request to the system. if the requested font is not available, the system will (or should) provide a font that is reasonable close.
so Pd should automatically find bitstream-vera-sans-mono file if it exists on the system.
but of course this is does not help with the initial problem.
btw. here the font-file is located at /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/VeraMono.ttf. but since i usually don't use Pd-extended (and don't have it installed right now) i am not sure whether PdX would really find it (though afair i never had a problem)
fgamrd IOhannes
-
IOhannes m zmoelnig -
Matt Barber -
Roman Haefeli