Fonts in a KDE application

[James Richard Tyrer]

Craig Drummond wrote:
>>I find that on my system that:
>>
>>	kfmclient copy <font_name>.ttf fonts:/System/
>>
>>copys the file to "$KDEDIR/share/fonts" which doesn't seem correct to
>>me.  And, it didn't update the Fontmap file in the directory.
> 
> 
> Hmmm...strange. To locate the system font directory, kio fonts queries 
> fontconfig for its list of folders. The default, and preferred, folder is 
> "/usr/local/share/fonts/". If the default is in the list of folders, then 
> this is what is used. If not, then the list is checked for the 1st sub folder 
> of "/usr/local/share/", and if none found then default is used and added to 
> fontconfig. So if your KDEDIR is /usr/local, then $KDEDIR/share/fonts is the 
> correct place. If $KDEDIR is /usr, /opt, etc. then something is a bit odd 
> ($KDEDIR is never looked at/used!)

I find that I have a link /usr/local/share -> /usr/share

so that explains the location.  But, should all fonts be placed in the
same directory?  The normal practice is to have a TTF|TT & Type1
subdirectories and use the appropriate one?  IIRC, when KFontInst was
using: /usr/X11R6/fonts it had separate directories.

> No Fontmap file is created in the font directory. Fontmaps are created in 
> $HOME/.fonts for non-root, and /etc/fonts/ for root (and this one should be 
> added to Ghoscript's main Fontmap file)

Yes, I found it with 1062 fonts.  I don't think that this is the correct
way to do it.  The normal GhostScript practice is to have a separate
"Fontmap" file in each font directory.  Wouldn't it be better for
KFontInst to look and see if one existed and then use that?  IIRC (and I 
don't use CUPS) there are problems adding to the GS_LIB path; with CUPS 
you need to have it built into GhostScript.

Do you mean that I should add to:

/usr/local/share/ghostscript/<version>/lib/Fontmap

??

Would the line:

	(/etc/fonts/Fontmap) .runlibfile

work?? IAC, is this in a README somewhere?

> But, does installing the font work? (Afterall that is the main purpose!)

Yes, but ... . (tm)  It didn't show up till I restarted KDE.

So, now that I have gotten some sleep. :-)

This works except that I would rather the font were placed in a seperate 
TT|TTF directory based on its extension and I would prefer that it 
recoginzed my per directory "Fontmap" file and used that rather than 
create a global one.  And, you have to restart KDE before the font shows 
up in the KCM Fonts dialog.

And a question: what happens if I just copy the font to: 
"/usr/local/fonts" or a subdirectory of that.  Will either KFontInst or 
FontConfig ever find it?

-- 
JRT