[Indic-computing-devel] Re: saraswati PCF format - mozilla ctl

[Jungshik S. <js...@ma...>]

Alok Kumar wrote:
> Hi Sumedh,
>
>  --- Sumedh Thakar <sum...@ya...> wrote: > I tried

> 1.5 with enable-ctl but the hindi
>
>>doesn't show correctly. The only thing i can think of is the
>>font I downloaded in TTF format as against the PCF as mentioned.

> While I do have the font in pcf format, I wonder if the ttf fonts are
> also
> supposed to work?
> The problem has been reported elsewhere as well:
> <http://archaeology.artefact.org.nz/archives/000091.html>
>

  TTF should work, too. There are two different ways. The easier of
two is to build your Mozilla with Xft and CTL enabled. Then, do the
following:

1. put Saraswati fonts into one of directories looked into by
   fontconfig.
2. Launch Mozilla
3. go to Edit | Pref | Appearance | Font| Devanagari and
  set all four categories to Saraswati.
4. Also make sure that 'allow documents to use other fonts'
   is NOT checked

If you still have a problem, launch Mozilla under hi_IN.UTF-8
(hi_IN.utf8) locale. That is, set your locale to that
before launching Mozilla.

$ LC_ALL=hi_IN.UTF-8 mozilla


For an X11core font build, you need to do the following:

1. download sun.unicode.india-0.enc file from Xfree86 cvs (web
interface or cvs command can be used) : see bug
http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939 [1]
2. gzip and install it in /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/encodings/large
3. put the Sun Indic TTF in a directory
4. run mkfontscale and mkfontdir
  (it'll add
   -altsys-saraswati5-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
  and antoher for bold)

5. add to fonts.scale and fonts.dir
 -altsys-saraswati5-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-sun.unicode.india-0

6. restart your X font server - give it a HUP signal -
  (if you use one) or your Xserver (if you don't use an x
  font server)

7. configure mozilla the way described above for
  Xft build.


BTW, you may try my patch for bug 215219
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215219).  It doesn't rely
on Sun fonts but take advantage of opentype fonts. You have to build a
mozilla with 'gtk2' and 'xft' (but ctl is NOT necessary).


Jungshik


[1] You don't need to download it, but that way it's easier
(for an alternative, read my comment in the bug) and a bit faster.
Besides, if you have a new version of mkfontscale (that
knows about sun.unicode.india-0, you don't have to take step 5)

P.S. Printing only works with Xprint. However, when my patch
for bug 208213 (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208213)
is landed, printing with freetype2 should work as well.