TrueType fonts for Puppy

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markofkane
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#16 Post by markofkane »

In Windows, if you have the fonts installed, you would use <font face="Kristen ITC">message</font> and it would show using that font.

I tried that with one of my installed fonts in Puppy, and no difference.

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#17 Post by russoodle »

You live and learn, huh...from what i've been reading, markofkane, it seems that not all fonts are compatible with all OSes, so perhaps that's the problem..?

Knowing squat about the ins and outs of the properties of glyphs and typefaces, i don't understand why some will work in Win or Mac but not in Linux...i've just come across a site - http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page ... m_download - that has downloads for one of its fonts, (among others), packaged in .zip format for Win, Mac and 'many Gnu/Linux' distros, + a special Debian/Ubuntu package, so they must have different quirks for different platforms.
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#18 Post by disciple »

What browser are you using?
if you have the fonts installed, you would use <font face="Kristen ITC">message</font> and it would show using that font.
That works for me in Puppy in all mozilla based browsers, and I think Opera/Konqueror/any major browser should work too. Dillo might not - I'm not sure.
You need to get the font name exactly right though.
Do you know a good gtkdialog program? Please post a link here

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#19 Post by disciple »

People after fonts may also want to look at
Puppy needs a font pack

I'm not sure if there was much else there of use, but I did post a link to a page where you could see all the (free) fonts included in Debian.
Do you know a good gtkdialog program? Please post a link here

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#20 Post by markofkane »

The trouble is knowing the correct name, but I can find out in abiword. :)

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#21 Post by ttuuxxx »

markofkane wrote:Thanks. It seems that font type HTML won't work in Puppy Linux, it seems all fonts look the same on webpages.

Color works and size works.

Maybe I'm wrong, lol. :lol:
If your using Seamonkey or a packaged firefox, most of the time in the its disabled for websites to use there own fonts, you have to enable it in the browser and then restart the browser.
Seamonkey --> edit -->Preferences -->appearance-->fonts
like below

ttuuxxx
Attachments
fonts.jpg
(57.15 KiB) Downloaded 1806 times
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

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thanks

#22 Post by markofkane »

Thanks!!

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Thank you!

#23 Post by HeathenKaer »

I was looking for fontforge (I had used it with good results prior to leaving Windoze). Lo and behold, I found it -- all ready-made in a nice little pet.
Thank you so much!
These forums have been invaluable in my transition to Linux and to Puppy.

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#24 Post by ttuuxxx »

HeathenKaer wrote:I was looking for fontforge (I had used it with good results prior to leaving Windoze). Lo and behold, I found it -- all ready-made in a nice little pet.
Thank you so much!
These forums have been invaluable in my transition to Linux and to Puppy.
Yes I think I packaged up that one, If so your welcome :)
ttuuxxx
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

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#25 Post by puppyite »

What follows is my attempt to shed some light on browsers and web page fonts (if anyone cares):

Markofkane:
Thanks. It seems that font type HTML won't work in Puppy Linux, it seems all fonts look the same on webpages. Color works and size works. Maybe I'm wrong, lol. Laughing.

Markofkane:
In Windows, if you have the fonts installed, you would use <font face="Kristen ITC">message</font> and it would show using that font. I tried that with one of my installed fonts in Puppy, and no difference.

Ttuuxxx:
Suggested to markofkane how he could change Preferences in Seamonkey to make any font appear on web pages. The only caveat to this is if you build a web page using a font that is not installed on the visitors HD then their browser will use the font selected in their browser’s preferences.

The screen shot in ttuuxxx’s post shows six possible font settings. AFAIK these options are typical of all browsers. The fonts used for these setting however are dependant on the OS used by the web site visitor. In my experience people rarely change these settings but YMMV.

See: Complete Guide to Pre-Installed Fonts in Linux, Mac, and Windows

See: 8 fonts you probably don’t use in css, but should

Incidentally Font tags have been depreciated by the W3C in favor of CSS. See: http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_fonts.asp for alternatives to font tags.

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#26 Post by abushcrafter »

ttuuxxx wrote:If you want 465 free TTF fonts I found this debian/ubuntu package, just download and extract/copy it to /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF
http://ppa.launchpad.net/corenominal/ub ... pa0.tar.gz
the website where I found it was
http://crunchbang.org/archives/2007/10/ ... or-ubuntu/
Have fun :)
ttuuxxx
thanks

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Own handwriting font

#27 Post by rufwoof »

Download and print out the template sheet from http://www.myscriptfont.com/ and then you write the letters in, in your own handwriting.

Scan that sheet of paper, save the image. Upload that file to the above site, and then you will get a .ttf file from them.

Price is right (free).

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#28 Post by cimarron »

How about over 1000 free fonts from Google?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=98525

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#29 Post by greengeek »

01micko wrote:A font editor.

"Fontforge'

You may know of it, you may have it, but did you get it from a .pet? Well you can now. Ttuuxxx compiled it earlier this year and I used it to turn .svg files that jebaJQ8 made for the weather font in Pwidgets to glyphs and construct a font. It is very easy yet very powerful. It has the tools to construct a font from scratch, and web based help, not bad for a 4.5M pet.

Enough hoo har, here it is... http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... mallPy.pet
I would be keen to try this. Anyone have a current link?
cheers

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#30 Post by musher0 »

greengeek wrote:
01micko wrote:A font editor.

"Fontforge'

You may know of it, you may have it, but did you get it from a .pet? Well you can now. Ttuuxxx compiled it earlier this year and I used it to turn .svg files that jebaJQ8 made for the weather font in Pwidgets to glyphs and construct a font. It is very easy yet very powerful. It has the tools to construct a font from scratch, and web based help, not bad for a 4.5M pet.

Enough hoo har, here it is... http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... mallPy.pet
I would be keen to try this. Anyone have a current link?
cheers
Hi, greengeek.

Not a pet, but this should work:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m ... 1_i386.deb
It's for a Lucid-level distro.

(From page http://pkgs.org/search/fontforge. That page offers 64-bit and
rpm formats as well.)

Also, from the "horse's mouth" :) :
http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/downloads/gnulinux,
if you want to compile it for your Pup.

I hope this helps. BFN.

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#31 Post by greengeek »

Thanks musher.
cheers!

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