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

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

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Sumedh Thakar wrote:

> 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

  Well, it does not work for 'justified' text.

> size is small. Do you guys know why Open Type fonts still don't
> work on linux?

  It does work if you apply the latest patch for bug 215219
(http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215219)? It works even for
justified text. That's the only way Mozilla can render justified text
written in complex script. You have to compile Mozilla with GTK2 + Xft
(you do not need 'enable-ctl' although it won't hurt except in terms of
the code size now that you managed to compile gtk2 + xft + ctl). With
that patch, Mozilla relies on Pango (installed on your Linux) and can
render as many complex scripts as supported by Pango (except for Hebrew
and Arabic that are implemented internally in Mozilla.)

> 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

  Alok, why don't you update your page as I wrote you a week ago?
Then, I'll refer to it in the international release notes.

   Jungshik

P.S. If you google 'mozilla devanagari ctl', the second hit
is a thread on linux-utf8 mailing list with all the details.