[K12OSN] Schoolbell 1.2 pdf

[Tom Hoffman]

On 8/29/05, Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Tom Hoffman wrote:
> 
> > On 8/29/05, Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
> >
> >>  From a quick test, it looks like the MS TrueType fonts are required:
> >>
> >>         Warning: font '/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/timesbd.ttf' does
> >>          not exist.
> >>         PDF support disabled.
> >
> > For better or worse, you aren't getting off that easy, Eric.  The
> > location of the fonts is set in schooltool.conf.in  So if X.org
> > provides its own version of timesbd.ttf, there is a good chance it
> > will work if you point to it.
> 
> How's this for an ugly hack.... I symlinked the Vera BitStream fonts
> to the names of the MS Core fonts and pointed SchoolBell/SchoolTool
> at the symlinks ;-)    (/etc/school[bell|tool]/fonts/)

My understanding is that the TrueType fonts are necessary for unicode
support, so I'd guess that this hack might break if you try to print
something with non-English characters.

--Tom