Re: alternative solution to GS [ The Path to the Desktop]

James Richard Tyrer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Vadim Plessky wrote:

> IIRC, FC searches for User fonts in ~/.fonts os something like this.
> I guess reading FC man page would bring up an answer.

Yes, FC does it fine.  It leaves a: "fonts.cache-1" file in the directories 
where the user's fonts are installed.

The problem is that something needs to know which user so that it can look 
in that user's directory.  Perhaps it shouldn't be dependent on knowing 
which user, but it is currently configured that way.

If you could configure it to look in the directory: "/home/*/.fonts" this 
would be good, but it is currently set up to look in: "$HOME/.fonts" so it 
needs to know which user.  But, although the current version of Bash will 
correctly expand: "/home/*/.fonts", FontConfig will not. :-(  So, something 
would still need to know the user and GhostScript doesn't have that 
information with CUPS.

--
JRT


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