nanogui: BDF and TTF fonts in NanoX
Subject:
RE: [nanogui] RE: BDF and TTF fonts in NanoX
From:
Teemu Keskinarkaus ####@####.####
Date:
22 Dec 2006 07:30:23 +0000
Message-Id: <FB4B49604ADFD949A9F32F2D8E6C4D47018F055C@alban.ccs.local>
I did some debugging, I'm not sure if you saw the posts, and the
freetype_createfont is trying to open fonts/truetype/Arial.tff. I have that
directory and file but still it doesn't seem to find right kind of data.
Another thing is that if I use Courier New - font, then it's trying to find
font from file Courier New.tff so I think I have some kind of principle
problem here.
I'm kind of confused here too because some say that I should use fonts.dir -
file and some say that I don't need it.
I did some _more_ testing with Freetype2 and results are here:
Nano-X-Freetype2: Adding new font: fonts/truetype/Arial.ttf
Loading font from file 'fonts/truetype/Arial.ttf' @ freetype2_face_requester
Nano-X-Freetype2: Freetype 2 error 1 trying to load font.
from directory where binary was driven there is fonts/truetype/Arial.tff
file, but it seems that either the program for some reason cannot open it or
it tries to read something else from there that actually there is.
Teemu Keskinarkaus
CC-Systems
-----Original Message-----
From: Gil Glass ####@####.####
Sent: 21. joulukuuta 2006 18:05
To: Teemu Keskinarkaus; Kiran Mahajan
Cc: Nano-X
Subject: RE: [nanogui] RE: BDF and TTF fonts in NanoX
I'm not familiar with the fonts.dir file. I don't recall creating it
and I don't believe it exists anywhere on my target or in the Nano-X
hierarchy on the host system.
Did you make sure that the MWFONTDIR environment variable is set
correctly? This is the only way, that I know of, that Nano-X finds font
files. The other option would be to specify the path explicitly in the
GrCreateFont() call, e.g.
GR_FONT_ID myNewFont;
myNewFont = GrCreateFont("/where/the/fonts/are/arial.ttf", 12, NULL);
Cheers,
Gil
-----Original Message-----
From: Teemu Keskinarkaus ####@####.####
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 1:24 AM
To: Kiran Mahajan
Cc: Gil Glass; Nano-X
Subject: RE: [nanogui] RE: BDF and TTF fonts in NanoX
Hi,
I already has freetype 1.3.1 ported to my platform. Only thing is that I
don't seem to be able to get TTF fonts work. My program doesn't find
them.
Where should that fonts.dir - file be and what should it contain? My
program
doesn't have one. Or should that file be in NanoX directory somewhere?
Teemu Keskinarkaus
CC-Systems
-----Original Message-----
From: Kiran Mahajan ####@####.####
Sent: 20. joulukuuta 2006 19:06
To: Teemu Keskinarkaus
Cc: Gil Glass; Nano-X
Subject: Re: [nanogui] RE: BDF and TTF fonts in NanoX
Teemu,
I am also using the FreeType library to use TTF fonts with Nano-X.
As Gil said you need to port FreeType library on your platform. I am
using 1.3.1 on ARM platform and it works great.
If you want to use only TTF fonts you only need to port FreeType1
library and wont need to use FreeType2.
And make changes in config file of Nano-x as Gil has suggested!
You also need to update your fonts.dir file to use your TTF font file.
Ya another thing, you only can use either FreeType1 or FreeType2 with
Nano-X.
Thanks and regards,
Kirankumar
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 07:03 -0800, Gil Glass wrote:
> Teemu,
>
> You can definitely use TTF fonts with Nano-X; I've been doing it for
> some time. Nano-X works very well with TTF fonts.
>
> Among the things you have to do are:
>
> 1. Get hold of the FreeType library (available at the Nano-X
> website???) and build it for your platform. I've been using version
> 1.3.1. I don't know much about FreeType 2 but it may have some
> advantages.
>
> 2. Set up the config file in Nano-X to indicate that TrueType fonts
are
> supported and to specify the location of the FreeType library
(libttf.a)
> and the location of font files. For example, my config file reads:
>
> ####################################################################
> # TrueType font support thru FreeType 1.x
> ####################################################################
> HAVE_FREETYPE_SUPPORT = Y
> INCFTLIB = /usr/include/freetype1
> LIBFTLIB = ./lib/libttf.a
> FREETYPE_FONT_DIR = "fonts/truetype"
>
> There are some hidden gotchas regarding the cross-compiling the
FreeType
> library for some non-x86 platforms such as ARM as I've done. Post
again
> if you run into trouble.
>
> Have I missed any details?
>
> Cheers,
> Gil Glass
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Teemu Keskinarkaus ####@####.####
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 6:51 AM
> To: ####@####.####
> Subject: BDF and TTF fonts in NanoX
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I'm using program that uses NanoX. That program doesn't care about
fonts
> so
> it passes the request straight to NanoX. Now I need to add more fonts
to
> NanoX.
>
>
>
> I already added one font to NanoX. That was BDF font that I converted
to
> C-file and then linked it with the NanoX. I was wondering is it
possible
> to
> use TTF fonts instead? I could use same font for several size. With
BDF
> fonts you need separate font for each size. I couldn't find
> documentation
> about that or even for the BDF. I just some reverse engineering for
the
> NanoX and figure out how it's done. : )
>
>
>
> Teemu Keskinarkaus
>
> CC-Systems
>
>
>
>
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