On 05/02/11 01:15, 1T3XT BVBA wrote:
> Op 1/05/2011 19:28, Larry Evans schreef:
>> Did an `svn update` then `ant execute` which got much fewer errors,
>> but still got some suggesting a windows path expression (using c:)
>> instaad of something more generic was used:
> That's documented on p374.
>
> The rationale is that we make it easy for Windows users to run the code,
> whereas Linux users are smart enough to fix this problem.
>
> Using the c:/windows/fonts/ path is the "simple" solution.
> The generic solution is explained from section 11.4.1 on (p374).
>
Thanks for the reference. However, the suggestion on that page
to look at:
/usr/share/X11/fonts/
doesn't work for ubuntu, which I gather is typical for linux
distributions which sometimes (maybe often) don't have a
standard place to put things. Anyway, I found the fonts here:
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts
I changed:
book/src/part1/chapter02/DirectorPhrases2.java
by substituting:
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts
for:
c:/windows/fonts/
in the 2 statements:
timesbd = BaseFont.createFont(
"c:/windows/fonts/timesbd.ttf",
BaseFont.WINANSI, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
times = BaseFont.createFont(
"c:/windows/fonts/times.ttf",
BaseFont.WINANSI, BaseFont.EMBEDDED);
and that .java file now compiles without problem; however, I will
have to make similar changes to all files that have similar
errors. Wouldn't providing a constant string, somewhere,
for the directory where the fonts are located make
the code more portable? I mean something like the:
public static final String RESULT =
"results/part1/chapter02/director_phrases_2.pdf";
only it would be:
public static final String FONTSDIR
= "c:/windows/fonts/";
for windows, and:
public static final String FONTSDIR
= "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/";
for ubuntu, and, as suggested on p. 374:
public static final String FONTSDIR
= "/Library/fonts/";
for Mac. Also, this os specific code could be documented
in maybe a README.protability.txt file or something like
that. It would be nice if the `mv clean install` command
could make this change automagically. Software oackages made
with make usually have a configure script which is initially
run before make to handle this sort of os specific problems.
Is it possible for mvn to do something similar?
-regards,
Larry
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