In Tk documentation, it reads: "(...) Tk attempts to guess what Postscript font to use. Tk's guesses generally only work for well-known fonts such as Times and Helvetica and Courier (...)"
source: http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/canvas.htm (see "-fontmap" section) So if you would like to be on the safe side, you are only limited to Times, Helvetica and Courier... In GNU/Linux, as you know, fonts are generally in /usr/share/fonts. Therefore you can take this path as the base for your application's font folder. Also I believe that distributing your own fonts is not a bad idea. If I were you, I would just collect all the fonts I need into a folder, and distribute that folder with my application. This way, I would always know where and what the fonts are... For instance, suppose that you collected all your .tff files in a folder named "freefont", and you know that there is a .tff file named "FreeSansOblique.ttf" in that folder: http://paste-it.net/public/ke2fa61/ There are some interesting websites giving away free fonts over the net. For example: http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html I tested some of these fonts in my code (under Ubuntu), and they all work. Good Luck! Firat 2010/8/24 Michael Lange <klappn...@web.de> > Hello, > > Thus spoketh Firat Ozgul <ozgulfi...@gmail.com> > unto us on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:54:30 +0300: > > > Hello, > > > > It looks like that postscript() function cannot render every font with > > no obvious reason. "Renderable" fonts are rendered correctly regardless > > of whether they contain spaces or not... > > I guess you are right, and using the fontmap option does not seem to make > any difference; when I use e.g. times in the canvas and override it > through the fontmap with verdana, I get verdana in the postscript. If I > use e.g. "clean" instead of verdana I get something that looks like > courier. So it looks like the good news is that I don't need to bother > trying to get the fontmap working when the font name contains white > space :) > > > However it seems that, > > alternatively, we can achieve what we want through the Image, ImageDraw > > and ImageFont modules. All we need to know is the name of the .ttf file > > to which the font name corresponds. > > > > Here is the code: http://paste-it.net/public/t66c5c0/ > > Nice, i did not know that this is possible, but unfortunately this is no > option for me. I want that my app can be run on any linux machine, so I > would have to ship my own fonts to know where exactly the files are. > > I wonder if there is some way to determine from within Tkinter which > fonts can't be used with postscript; if yes I could simply remove these > from the menu where the font can be selected, I could live very well with > that. What's bad is that the font that is printed is not the one the user > sees on the screen. > > Regards > > Michael > > > .-.. .. ...- . .-.. --- -. --. .- -. -.. .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-. > > There's a way out of any cage. > -- Captain Christopher Pike, "The Menagerie" ("The Cage"), > stardate unknown. > _______________________________________________ > Tkinter-discuss mailing list > Tkinter-discuss@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tkinter-discuss >
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