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movax
Cannot create certain fonts
Aug 7th, 2007, 9:51pm  
Hey guys -

So, it seems that some fonts will not show up in the Create Font function.  For example, the font "Tunga" shows up only as  rectangles, even with "All Characters" checked.  But its a TTF, and other TTFs show up perfectly..  Is there a special method for non-Roman fonts?  Sorry if this is documented, I didn't see this particular problem in my search..
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lenny
Re: Cannot create certain fonts
Reply #1 - Aug 15th, 2007, 5:11pm  
i had the same problem.
using textmode(SHAPE) in opengl solved the problem for some fonts.
and using blending-modes in opengl solved some problems with the rendering of some fonts.
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fry
Re: Cannot create certain fonts
Reply #2 - Aug 15th, 2007, 10:56pm  
movax, are you on a mac or pc? does it do this with any of the built-in fonts?

with "all characters" set, it should be picking up everything it can.
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movax
Re: Cannot create certain fonts
Reply #3 - Aug 20th, 2007, 3:48am  
I am on WinXP.  You can tell which fonts won't work because they show up in the "Create Font" dialog as all rectangles.  However, the fonts that don't work are still TTFs so I don't know what could be different..  

An example of built in fonts that don't work are Symbol, Wingdings..  
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seudoscientist
Re: Cannot create certain fonts
Reply #4 - Oct 5th, 2007, 12:39pm  
movax, fry, or anyone ... i'm on WINXP, and using adobe type manager, and it seems that only the fonts that were installed directly to WINDOWS/Fonts, rather than those managed by ATM by using shortcuts, are the only ones that Processing lists. I wanted to use Avant Garde so I removed it from ATM, and installed to WINDOWS/Fonts, but they dont show up. Is there some kind of cached setting perhaps, that list() uses, rather than somehow interfacing with the actual system? What could I be overlooking here. Right now I've got a list of about 100 fonts available to me in Processing, and about 3 of them are worth using Smiley And all my nice fonts just unavailable.
Alternatively I don't suppose there's any standalone way of producing vlw files?
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