that would be the other "osx way" to install stuff ;) btw. are we talking about some particular font ? as the X11 package in OSX contains Bitstream & Co fonts, IIRC
.andre On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 23:24 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > Maybe the Mac OS X .dmg should just include the font file and a link > to the Fonts install folder... > > .hc > > On Mar 28, 2007, at 2:02 AM, Andre Schmidt wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > i got a new job as osx admin (among others) for a while now, and we > > are > > using a particular font as "corporate design". so to ease my job > > for new > > osx clients, i made a .pkg that installs the fonts to /Library/Fonts. > > the fonts work rightaway without needing to restart or recache (just > > like windowsxp) > > > > if you dont want to install fonts to system library (eg. you dont want > > to use admin rights) you can allso install the fonts to ~/Library/ > > Fonts > > > > but the coolest would be to be able to use the fonts from inside > > the pd > > dir, without touching any system configs or dirs. but i dont know if > > thats possible. > > (like pdf uses embedded fonts, but i assume that pdf doesnt use the > > system font render system ?) > > > > cheers > > andre > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 00:38 -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > >> Good point, Pd-extended is already using an installer on Windows, so > >> it can just install the font in the proper location, %SYSTEMROOT% > >> \Fonts > >> > >> That leaves Mac OS X, which is tricky since it needs to be inside the > >> Mac OS X .app package. > >> > >> .hc > >> > >> On Mar 27, 2007, at 6:14 PM, David Powers wrote: > >> > >>> On Windows installing the font with a batch file would be trivial. > >>> > >>> If you made some file "Install.bat" it could copy the font to the > >>> correct directory, and also run the registry script you currently > >>> use, > >>> at the same time. > >>> > >>> ~David > >>> > >>> On 3/27/07, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On Mar 27, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Patco wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hans-Christoph Steiner a écrit : > >>>>>> The last step in sorting the cross-platform font issue is finding > >>>>>> a way of including the font file for the Windows and Mac OS X > >>>>>> packages. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Anyone know how to make Tk look for fonts in a specific > >>>>>> directory? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> .hc > >>>>>> > >>>>> I don't think you can't do this but it's possible to put a > >>>>> specific > >>>>> font into the X server fonts directory, and doing a font mapping > >>>>> like in this neat tcl-tk application: > >>>>> http://xstick.e-artisan.org/ > >>>>> > >>>>> also you might be interested by this: > >>>>> http://wiki.tcl.tk/470 > >>>> > >>>> On Debian and Ubuntu, it'll be very easy to support since the > >>>> Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font is in the package system. I think > >>>> that > >>>> font is also included in any GNOME install, so that covers most > >>>> GNU/ > >>>> Linux users. > >>>> > >>>> The hard part is Windows and Mac OS X. We could require people to > >>>> install the font seperately, but I'd rather have it just work > >>>> out of > >>>> the box. > >>>> > >>>> .hc > >>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> ___________________________________________________________________ > >>>> __ > >>>> _ > >>>>> _____ Yahoo! Mail réinvente le mail ! 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