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

[Sumedh T. <sum...@ya...>]

I finally got this working with the TTF font on my redhat9.0
system. its the latest 1.7a .. interestingly enough I was
getting the gmodule error etc. when I did the standard
./configure make and make install. But when i used the gmake -f
client.mk build .. things stared working fine. The other mistake
I was making was that I had installed the font for the core X
and was doing the build for XFT. once i installed the fonts for
xconfig it works like a charm. The only thing is that the font
size is small. Do you guys know why Open Type fonts still don't
work on linux?

Jungshik, Prabhat, Alok and others, you guys are doing a great
job, please keep it up. Just so that others go through a less
painful process than I did I have written down what I did and
what were the problems, you can update your HowTo or something
with this if needed so that its available through google search.
Thanks again.

Here is what i had to do if you guys want to post this as the
latest info on one of the sites.

*** install gtk-2.0-devl, glib-2.0-devl, pango, IDL and all the
related packages.
1) pull the mozilla cvs tree starting with the client.mk file.
setenv CVSROOT
:pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot
cvs login
password: anonymous) (You only need to login once)
cvs co mozilla/client.mk
cd mozilla
***before pulling the rest of the tree do the following.

2) create the ~/.mozconfig file with the options you want. in my
case

# sh
# Build configuration script
#
# See http://www.mozilla.org/build/unix.html for build
instructions.
#
                                                                
                                                                
                                                                
  
# Options for client.mk.
mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j4
                                                                
                                                                
                                                                
  
# Options for 'configure' (same as command-line options).
# Do these to get a good ctl xft build
ac_add_options --with-pthreads
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2
ac_add_options --enable-xft
ac_add_options --enable-ctl
# These are as per your preference
ac_add_options --disable-composer
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-mailnews
ac_add_options --disable-ldap
ac_add_options --disable-xprint
ac_add_options --enable-crypto
ac_add_options --disable-jsd

*** I couldn't get the ctl to work well with a manual build
using ./configure command and the above options. So create the
above file that works best.

*** Now pull the rest of the tree and do the compile.
3) gmake -f client.mk checkout (only first time. After that you
can drop the 'checkout' at the end)

4) Just to be sure, you can build again using
gmake -f client.mk build

5) get the two Saraswati fonts TTF from SUN. **very important
install the fonts for the fontconfig/XFT system and not just the
core X fonts if you do the --enable-xft build. Typical location
for XFT font installation is /usr/share/fonts/ and use the
fc-cache to update the font cache.

6) Now you can fire up the new mozilla binary from
mozilla/dist/bin and in the font preferences change the fonts to
'Saraswati' for Unicode and Devnagri. and disable the 'let
documents use their own fonts'. If you don't see the font in the
font list, then the font is not in the right path.

The test ofcourse is to go check the BBC website. Enjoy! - Sumedh

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