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[vovchik]

Dear Puppians,

I got inspired by zigbert's tiny pfont utility, which does what is ought to, except that it has no preview feature. I banged out Pfont2 as a kluge solution to the ttf preview problem. Although the next version will have a proper previewer based on freetype2 and gtk/CairoPango, this version is an interim solution. It does give you a preview of the first ttf page (chars 0 to 255), but none of the extra unicode tables . It installs ttf2png and pngcrop (little binary utilities), pfont2 and ttf into /usr/local/bin. If you have IM convert installed, it will use that for trimming the png, otherwise it will make use of pngcrop. You can set ttf (in/usr/local/bin) as the default handler for ttf files in rox so that you get a preview each time you click on a ttf file. The next version will be better...

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. I compiled in Puppy 3.01 to ensure that the binaries run in old Puppies. They work fine in my Lucid, so new puppies should not encounter problems.

PPS. I just made a small correction to the ttf script (it didn't like parsing the filename if browsing a hidden directory). Now fixed.

[Karl Godt]

Hello !

First : nice little app . I have missed such .

Second : The /tmp/font.png does not get on my screen , even with
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
installed to get a 'convert' command (luci218/511) .
I only get the part of the description , if I don' t browse to /tmp .

Third : <action type="fileselect /usr/share/fonts">FONT</action>
I am no gtkdialog3 expert , but this still opens fileselect in /root .
Do you know how to adjust it ?
I guess I'd find it somewhere in zigbert's lession , but it is very large .

With kind regards ,
karl

[vovchik]

Dear Karl,

I don't know why the png file is not showing, as I can see it. Please have a look at the code in the "tiff" script (/usr/local/bin). If IM's convert is not found, I use another little program to clip the otherwise large png file. As for fileselect not wishing to show anything but "root", I have run into this problem before. I think there should be a "cd" to the appropriate dir (could also be /root/.fonts). Alternatively, the button could run "rox /root/.fonts", for example, and then drag-and-drop could be used. Do you want to try to make some mods? Ideally, we should write a little font previewer using calls to libtruetype and gtk/pango/cairo functions, eliminating the need to create png files altogether. KDE has a little program called kfontview that works as an excellent previewer for all ttf fonts, not only installed ones. That is what I would like for GTK. I have already started writing such a thing but keep getting runtime segfaults after my calls to libtruetype. I am trying to figure this out...

WIth kind regareds,
vovchik

[maik.murks]

Hi vovchik.

So, here have you been hidden, in the desktop section. Well, I‘ve been waiting for you since awhile in the request section here.

However, I‘m glad to find you again today
And congratulations for your Pfont2

I‘ve already downloaded your Pfont2 today and gave it a try. Pfont2 installs well and generates a menu entry in the desktop section as forecasted. A click on the menu item starts Pfont2. Unfortunately this is all what Pfont2 is doing for me on my 2.14X. It seems to be that Pfont2 doesn‘t like me. When I click on the 'View installed‘ button nothing happens. And when I drag and drop a TTF file from an USB stick into the empty field of Pfont2 and click on the 'Preview‘ button thereafter, nothing happens again. But the 'Exit‘ button works well

Then I tried ttf2png via console with a testfont.ttf. The result was a 256x256 pixel PNG file named font.png with the characters shown of the testfont.ttf. So, it seems to be that ttf2png works very well.

Do you have any idea, what I can do that Pfont2 likes me a little bit and works as it should work?

Moreover, it will be a good idea, I think, to mark that thread in the request section as 'filled‘ or 'solved‘ or whatever makes sense. And I‘ll add a link with some explainig words from the gfontview thread there to your Pfont2 thread here. I hope that is OK for you. Furthermore I like to add an additional link with a short description of Pfont2 into the Fonts-4-Puppy thread to that posting. I hope that is OK for you, too.

Last but not least, thank you very much for your work, for making Pfont2, a great little tool
And finally, I really like to have Pfont2 working on my 2.14X

Cheers

Maik.Murks

[vovchik]

Dear Maik.Murks and Karl,

Do you have a recent gtkdialog-splash installed? It is used to display the image and to provide a bit more information regarding the font. I know that gtkdialog-splash first appeared in later puppies, but it works in my old 3.01, for example. I use the latest version that can display images nicely. You can find it somewhere on the forum. Also, all the help messages appear using gtkdialog-splash, too, so it is pretty essential. It also esablishes a symlink to yaf-splash and replaces it. I have attached the version I think I am using to this post....

With kind regards,
vovchik

[Karl Godt]

[Karl Godt]

# diff `which gtkdialog-splash` /root/gtkdialog-splash-20110319/usr/bin/gtkdialog-splash | grep '^>' | wc -l

27

changed lines ....

31a54
> OR <path/to/pixmap> \n
100a124,126
> [ "`echo $arg | grep '^gtk'`" = "" ]&& icon="<pixmap>
> <input file>\"$arg\"</input>
> </pixmap>" #110318


also #!/bin/ash on top instead of #!/bin/sh .

Will report later after I made backups and so .

[Karl Godt]

YES , works now !

Additionally I had
pngcrop: error while loading shared libraries: libpng.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

But
find /usr/lib -name "libpng*"

gave me

/usr/lib/libpng.so
/usr/lib/libpng.a
/usr/lib/libpng12.a
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpng.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libpng12.pc
/usr/lib/libpng12.so
/usr/lib/libpng12.so.0
/usr/lib/libpng12.la

and

ln -s libpng12.so /usr/lib/libpng.so.3

fixed it .

Thank you very much , vovchik !

[vovchik]

Dear Karl,

Thanks for your debugging. In my lucid "ash" is a symlink to /bin/busybox. As for the libpng problem, I simply compiled in my old 3.01 and it must have been in the make file; I must have had that symlink from something I had done earlier, or else I would have had an error, too. So, for older puppies, the symlinks - ash, libpng and yaf-splash - and the new gtkdialog-splash pet are needed. I should then create an install or post-install script to handle those issues, unless you can do that and simply repost the pet, since you have already done all the investigative dirty work

With kind regards,
vovchik

[Karl Godt]

For the path thingy : I really believe that in libgtk there maybe string fileselect can show something and perhaps reading the large source can show solutions ,

but for now I used some code from the ^buggy^ jwmconfig2 :

diff -U 2 -aNd /usr/local/bin/pfont2-0.21-orig /usr/local/bin/pfont2

[maik.murks]

[Karl Godt]

<label>View installed </label>
<action>gfontsel &</action>

which gfontsel

/usr/bin/gfontsel

Not missing on mine side

[vovchik]

Dear Maik.Murks,

I think you might be missing "gfontsel", which is called by the "View installed" button. Try issuing "which gfontslect" from a terminal. If you get nothing, it means "gfontsel" is missing from your exec dirs (typically /bin, /sbin/, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin, /usr/X11R7/bin and /root/my-applications/bin). I don't know what is used in 2.14X for showing installed fonts. I think this package might be available, thought, and perhaps somebody can post a version that runs under 2.14X here (or provide a link). I think my lucid version will segfault with an older glib, otherwise I would post it myself. You could replace gfontsel with

[maik.murks]

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