[GRASS-dev] font path question for Linux and Windows

[William Kyngesburye]

On Apr 29, 2007, at 7:27 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:

> First, we should try to come up with a list of directories which are
> viable candidates for containing fonts.
>
> The installed freetypecap file (currently just a copy of
> scripts/d.text.freetype/freetypecap) should be generated by scanning
> all such directories for .ttf files.
>
> If browsing for font files, I would suggest starting with whichever
> directory has the most entries in the freetypecap file.
>
> BTW, with Cygwin, I would suggest starting with $WINDIR/Fonts,
> converted to a Cygwin path, e.g. "cygpath -u $WINDIR/fonts". Windows
> is likely to have more fonts than Cygwin.
>
Note that font names on OSX aren't required to follow any file  
extension conventions.  First the HFS+ file type/creator is used to  
determine if a file is a font, then the file extension if the type/ 
creator are empty.  I think it's that order.

So scanning automatically for fonts to create the freetypecap may  
miss many fonts, unless it knew how to check OSX type/creator info  
for a file.

ie the MS fonts that come with the system have no extension.  Also,  
many TT fonts in OSX have been repackaged in the .dfont (a flattened  
resource-fork file).

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