Subject:
Re: FLNX 0.12 - fonts problems
From:
"Greg Haerr" ####@####.####
Date:
21 Oct 2000 18:28:00 -0000
Message-Id: <024d01c03b8d$0c368120$15320cd0@gregh>
: I rewrite a Fl_box 's draw and measure function, and I can display chinese
font correctly, so I guess that such functions need to redo.
Yes, those functions will need updating. If you get it working, please
send a patch. Otherwise, we'll start working on it, but probably
after Nov 1st.
Regards,
Greg
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: To: "Jeff Moellmer" ####@####.#### ####@####.####
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: Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 4:04 AM
: Subject: Re: FLNX 0.12 - fonts problems
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: > Jeff,
: > Let's plan on meeting early next week to finally put
: > to bed all the FLNX/Microwindows font issues. You or Scott
: > can hack FLNX, and I'll hack Microwindows, and we need
: > to make sure that T1, TrueType, and GB2312 chinese fonts
: > all work with FLNX. Then let's go after the interal (I suggest
: > UTF-8) encoding format. You and Scott might want to look
: > at all this to get prepared to hack it into submission.
: >
: > In particular, the following needs to happen:
: >
: > FLNX:
: > 1. Font names are consistent, no chinese recompile should be
: > required. That is, only Microwindows is recompiled, not FLNX
: > or ViewML. There needs to be a way to specify that a chinese
: > font is wanted, rather than say Western truetype.
: >
: > 2. Known font names will be used, and font name aliasing will
: > be added to Microwindows.
: >
: > 3. Internal text encoding UTF-8 standard will be used. (or
: > at least mult-byte, rather than UC16 wide characters)
: >
: > Nano-X:
: > 1. Add font aliasing, and font directory configuration files,
: > readable at run-time.
: >
: > 2. Possibly add run-time selection of chinese vs truetype,
: > rather than having to recompile. This might allow GB2312
: > chinese fonts to be image-loaded, rather than bound-in.
: >
: > 3. Allow GB2312 and UTF-8 encodings to run simultaneosly,
: > with the addition of another MWTF_GB2312 type.
: >
: > 4. Get approval for all chinese fonts used in Microwindows, as
: > part of the standard distribution.
: >
: > ViewML: (post 0.2)
: > 1. Run ViewML using UTF-8/GB2312 internally. Allow
: > HTML conversion to this format and display of any HTML
: > page in Western as well as Chinese.
: >
: > Regards,
: >
: > Greg
: >
: > > 1. microwin/src/confg:
: > > A. Turn on HZK font support:
: > >
: > > HAVE_HZK_SUPPORT = "Y";
: > >
: > > B. Tell microwindows *exactly* where it is exactly (not a relative
: > path):
: > >
: > > HZK_FONT_DIR =
: > > "/home/jeffm/microwin/src/fonts/chinese"
: > >
: > > 2. flnx/src/fl_font.cxx:
: > >
: > > A. Only use HZFONT in the fonts section:
: > >
: > > static Fl_Fontdesc built_in_table[] = {
: > > {"HZKFONT"}
: > > /*
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/arial.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/arialb.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/ariali.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/arialz.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/cour.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/courb.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/couri.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/courz.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/times.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/timesb.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/timesi.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/timesz.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/impact.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/impact.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/impact.ttf"},
: > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/impact.ttf"}
: > > */
: > > };
: > >
: > > 3. Recompile both mircowindows and FLNX.
: > >
: > > Afterwards, when you run a flnx applications you should see something like
: > this:
: > >
: > > this is in nano-X
: > > Nano-X don't support get_mouse(x,y)in file(Fl_X.cxx)
: > > hzk_createfont(HZKFONT,16)
: > > Loading Chinese HZK font from
: > > file(/home/jeffm/microwin/src/fonts/chinese/hzk16)...done.
: > > Loading ASCII HZK font...done.
: > >
: > > Try this out, however, there seems to be problems with displaying the
: > fonts in some
: > > FLNX. For example, even though the fonts load, the fonts test demo program
: > seg
: > > faults every time!
: > >
: > > I'll have to talk with Greg and get some more details, but we'll get it
: > working.
: > > Chinese font support is very important.
: > >
: > > Thanks,
: > >
: > > Jeff
: > >
: > > ####@####.#### wrote:
: > >
: > > > Hi Jeff,
: > > >
: > > > How to configure flnx to support different fonts, like generic, T1, TTF,
: > > > HZKFONT, etc?
: > > >
: > > > I'd like to use fltk running on nano-x on Assabet board. Now, I
: > successfully
: > > > port Microwindows 0.89pre3 on my platform.
: > > > I can display different font type/size including T1LIB, Free Type,
: > HZKFONT
: > > > Chinese characters, etc. under Microwinodws.
: > > >
: > > > However, I cannot change the font type or font size on my application
: > written by
: > > > flnx and even cannot run the demo program - fonts under subdirectory
: > flnx/test/
: > > > .
: > > >
: > > > The demo program - fonts cannot work even I try several combination.
: > > >
: > > > (1) I copy all *.ttf file to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/ and run
: > > > I got the following error (but I am sure the files are existed in the
: > correct
: > > > directory)
: > > >
: > > > hifi:~/microwindows/flnx/test # /fonts
: > > >
: > > > t1lib_createfont: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/arial.ttf,16 not
: > found
: > > > t1lib_createfont: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/timesb.ttf,16 not
: > found
: > > >
: > > > (2) use generic fonts
: > > > I definitely use the second part of font table by using XX_NANO_X macro
: > to
: > > > unselect the first part in file fl_font.cxx (as shown below)
: > > >
: > > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
: > > > #ifdef XX_NANO_X
: > > > // WARNING: if you add to this table, you must redefine FL_FREE_FONT
: > > > // in Enumerations.H & recompile!!
: > > > static Fl_Fontdesc built_in_table[] = {
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/arial.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/arialb.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/ariali.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/arialz.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/cour.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/courb.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/couri.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/courz.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/times.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/timesb.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/timesi.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/timesz.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/impact.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/impact.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/impact.ttf"},
: > > > {"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/impact.ttf"},
: > > > /*{"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"},
: > > > {"HZKFONT"}
: > > > */
: > > > };
: > > >
: > > > #else
: > > > // WARNING: if you add to this table, you must redefine FL_FREE_FONT
: > > > // in Enumerations.H & recompile!!
: > > > static Fl_Fontdesc built_in_table[] = {
: > > > {"-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*"},
: > > > {"-*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*"},
: > > > {"-*-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*"},
: > > > {"-*-helvetica-bold-o-normal--*"},
: > > > {"-*-courier-medium-r-normal--*"},
: > > > {"-*-courier-bold-r-normal--*"},
: > > > {"-*-courier-medium-o-normal--*"},
: > > > {"-*-courier-bold-o-normal--*"},
: > > > {"-*-times-medium-r-normal--*"},
: > > > {"-*-times-bold-r-normal--*"},
: > > > {"-*-times-medium-i-normal--*"},
: > > > {"-*-times-bold-i-normal--*"},
: > > > {"-*-symbol-*"},
: > > > {"-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-*"},
: > > > {"-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-sans-*"},
: > > > {"-*-*zapf dingbats-*"}
: > > > };
: > > > #endif
: > > >
: > > > Unluckily, I got the following error.
: > > >
: > > > hifi:~/microwindows/flnx/test # ./fonts
: > > > t1lib_createfont:
: > > > -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*,16 not foundt1lib_createfont:
: > > > -*-times-bold-r-normal--*,16 not found
: > > >
: > > > Actually, I have no files something
: > ike -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--* . Is
: > > > it a build-in fonts? Else, where can I get the fonts file?
: > > >
: > > > (3) using T1LIB
: > > > I copy the FoneDataBase file to the flnx/test and modify the path
: > accordingly
: > > > (FREETYPE_FONT_DIR=/usr/local/microwin/fonts)
: > > >
: > > > No run time errors.
: > > >
: > > > Unluckily, I also cannot change the font type or size as I wish.
: > > >
: > > > The questions is that what am I doing wrong?
: > > > Is there any environment variables I have to define? In fact, I do
: > change the
: > > > font type or size in Mircowindows.
: > > >
: > > > By the way, where can I get more fonts?
: > > >
: > > > Your help is highly appreciated.
: > > > Thank you in advance.
: > > >
: > > > Hifi Wong.
: > >
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