LC server and fonts

Tue Mar 6 11:33:20 EST 2018

Well, it looks like fontconfig is installed in on-rev, but neither
/home/<you>/.fonts or /home/<you>/.local/share/fonts are being updated
automatically.  I tried to run fc-cache -f -v /home/<me>/.fonts and the
font is indeed found, but I don't think I have all the required support
directories, so there is no writable place to actually store the cache
data. The command fails because of this.  If it were me, I'd contact on-rev
and see if they could help set things up to actually look at a fonts
directory in your account and add any fonts there.  All the software seems
to be installed to do this, I just don't know enough about fontconfig to
force it from the user side. (It should be possible, but again I don't know
enough about fontconfig to know what to do yet)

As for start using font file.. Yep, it fails every time with an error
message that is just a bit lacking.  Getting on-rev/fontconfig set up to
handle this for you sounds like the way to go.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 7:41 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure, i'll dig up a font file and try.
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 7:37 AM, jbv via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> "start using font file.." is the first option that I tried, but
>> unfortunately it returns "can't load font file"...
>> The ttf file is on the server next to my script, and I have also
>> tried with the full absolute path for that ttf file.
>> Could you please make a test on your own on-rev account with any
>> ttf file (different from the default fonts in fontnames) and let us
>> know of it works ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> On Tue, March 6, 2018 3:03 pm, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote:
>> > My apologies.. Had a brain fritz, it should be "start using font file.."
>> > load url would just load whatever url into cache and not font it up.
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:07 AM, jbv via use-livecode <
>> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> When using
>> >> load font file "nameofyourfont.ttf" the result contains Handler: can't
>> >> find handler (file)
>> >>
>> >> It looks like "load" is accepted only in the form "load URL"...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, March 5, 2018 9:28 pm, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Hmm. Not sure what to do about loading a fontfile then.  Out of
>> >>> curiosity, what is the error?
>> >>>
>> >>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 11:39 AM, jbv via use-livecode <
>> >>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Hi Mike,
>> >>>> Thanks for your reply.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Yes, I managed to set the textfont of a btn or fld to one of the
>> >>>> fonts available in the fontnames, but I still can't figure how to
>> >>>> use any
>> >> other
>> >>>> ttf font... load font file "nameofyourfont.ttf" -> returns an error
>> >>>> I
>> >>>> tried load URL "nameofyourfont.ttf", it works, but then the textfont
>> >>>>  property isn't updated...
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Mon, March 5, 2018 3:59 pm, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> With on-rev, I put up this script..
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> <?lc
>> >>>>> create button "mybtn"
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> repeat for each line tLIne in the fontnames -- will make 1 png
>> >>>>> per font
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> set the label of btn "mybtn" to tLine set the textfont of button
>> >>>>> "mybtn"
>> >>>>> to tLine set the width of button "mybtn" to the formattedwidth of
>> >>>>> button "mybtn" + 5
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> export snapshot from button "mybtn" to file (tLine & ".png") as
>> >>>>> PNG
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> put the textfont of button "mybtn" && "<img src=" & quote & tline
>> >>>>> &
>> >>>>> ".png"
>> >>>>> & quote & "><br>" & cr
>> >>>>> end repeat ?>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> And it works fine, with the exception of fonts with a - in the
>> >>>>> name. All
>> >>>>> of them are Hershey fonts, so not sure if its the font family that
>> >>>>> is broken, or the dashes causing the issue.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> If you have a ttf font file to use, you can probably put it on
>> >>>>> your server next to your script and: load font file
>> >>>>> "nameofyourfont.ttf"
>> >>>>> and
>> >>>> then
>> >>>>> set the textfont to "nameofyourfont" and it will likely work.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> To see my script in action, check here:
>> >>>>> http://guidezone.info/fonttest.lc
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 8:21 AM, Warren Samples via use-livecode <
>> >>>>>  use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> On 03/02/2018 04:14 AM, jbv via use-livecode wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Hello list
>> >>>>>>> How can I load ttf font files with LC server, at least version
>> >>>>>>> 7.1
>> >>>>>>> available on my on-rev account ? Neither "revFontLoad" nor
>> >>>>>>> "start using
>> >>>>>>> font file" seem to work... And the list of available fonts
>> >>>>>>> returned by "the fontNames" is quite limited...
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>> >>>>>>> jbv
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Does on-rev run on Linux? If you create a directory called
>> >>>>>> '.fonts'
>> >>>>>> under your user name and install the fonts you want to use in
>> >>>>>> your images in that directory, LiveCode will find them.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> A quick test shows this to be true using LC Server 8.1.4, but
>> >>>>>> you may have to do some experimenting to get them working in a
>> >>>>>> script accessed through your web server. Executing a script to
>> >>>>>> show the fontnames works from the command line but without
>> >>>>>> having done any real investigating, I have to admit it's not
>> >>>>>> working when accessed through my server. This isn't an on-rev
>> >>>>>> nor an Apache server so ymmv. If you decide to go the standalone
>> >>>>>> route, you should be able to install your fonts this way to use
>> >>>>>> them in the standalone.
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Good luck!
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Warren
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
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