On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 22:55, Rohit Dhawan wrote: > I mean implementation of a system where in a system that is open > source and has ability to be remotely updated with fonts and > provides the ability to user for using all the new and old fonts > housed on a server.
> Something like Adobe's ATM font manager(It does not have server option). A bit like Suitcase Server? If so, it's actually really easy. You can use a network volume (eg NFS or SMB file share) to hold your fonts - Linux will handle this efficiently and correctly. You will need to prepare the directories containing the fonts a little, though. There are two major font systems currently used in Linux, and programs on a single Linux install may use one or the other (occasionally even both). Both need to be told where to find the folder. This is a workstation setup issue, a bit like telling SuitCase what the IP address of the font server is. I'll hunt up some references for how to set the FontConfig and X11 font paths in a bit - I'm afraid I lack the time at this moment. If you're looking for something that caches the fonts locally, it can be done - and is only slightly more fiddly. The best way would probably just to use a normal file synchronisation tool like rsync or unison to update the workstation's font repositories at every boot. > as for hooking Scribus into various databases could you forward a set > method for one which you have at least some success rate so that i can > come up with a suggestion and other methods for implementation with > our development team. I've been meaning to write some simple database-integration examples for a while now, so I'll be glad to do that. Again, not tonight though. -- Craig Ringer
