RE: Fonts on Solaris 10

[Vaisburd, Haim]

Hi,

I have quite a good experience with GNUstep on Solaris 10, same 0.10.3,
only with art, not xlib backend. 

The art backend has the accompanying package ArtResources,
which includes two additional font families:
Vera
(http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/vera.html)
and FreeFont (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freefont)
and also the program mknfonts that creates corresponding .nfont
directories for the given set of font files.

ArtResources was written by Alexander Malmberg.

While it seems to be a natural and integral part of gnustep-back,
this package is not available along the core gnustep packages,
nor anywhere in ftp.gnustep.org

I found it here:
http://gentoo.inode.at/distfiles/ArtResources-0.1.2.tar.bz2

You can try to install it and try mknfonts (you need to tweak Makefile
or define GNUSTEP_ROOT, otherwise make will complain).


Meanwhile this package disappeared from Alex Malmberg site.
I remember the package was actually put in gnustep/libs, but could
not find it here. Does anybody know what happened?

I think it's an essential package and we need to restore it.

--Tima

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From: discuss-gnustep-bounces+hvaisbur=advent.com@gnu.org
[mailto:discuss-gnustep-bounces+hvaisbur=advent.com@gnu.org] On Behalf
Of Newhouse, Richard A
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 10:22 AM
To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
Subject: Fonts on Solaris 10



We've upgraded our Sun workstations from Solaris 8 to Solaris 10.  At
the same time, we updated our GNUstep suite, which uses the 0.10.3
version of back.  We have GNUstep interfaces which use both Helvetica
and Courier fonts, and a font which we've developed.

 

We initially configured back using just .configure, which designated the
build graphics as art and the build server of x11.  The only font
available under this configuration was Helvetica.  We were unable to
access the Courier font or the font we developed.

 

When then configured back using ./configure --enable-graphics=xlib
--with-name=back --disable-glx --disable-xim, which designated the build
graphics as xlib and the build server of x11.  We were able to access
the Helvetica and Courier fonts, but they were two sizes too large
(i.e., Helvetica size 12 appears as Helvetica size 14).  We still were
unable to access the font we developed.

 

Thank you for any help and advice you can provide.