Hi, Naveen, I think all that is really required in most modern Linux environments is to install the OpenType (.ttf) fonts into a directory and run fontconfig's "fc-cache" utility. For example, something like this should be enough (for system-wide installation as root): ~# wget http://www.sanskritweb.org/cakram/chandas.ttf ~# mv chandas.ttf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/ ~# fc-cache -v /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/ Commands such as /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir are part of the legacy X windows font rendering system -- while the PCF, SNF, or BDF fonts originally used by X Windows still require processing by such commands, the X Windows legacy font processing system is useless for Devanagari and other Indic fonts since these scripts have complex shaping requirements that the legacy X Windows system cannot handle. The new system used by the text shaping engines in all QT/KDE and GTK/Gnome applications use FontConfig and FreeType. The following slide and notes provides a historical summary and may help you better understand how the pieces fit together: http://unifont.org/iuc27/html/img18.html I hope this helps. Best Wishes for the New Year! On Dec 28, 2007 4:47 AM, Naveen Kumar <naveen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to this group, I working on PXA-255(arm) platform running with > linux kernel 2.4.18 and jffs2 filesystem. > > I need to build an application with hindi(Indian) fonts, So as a first > step i tried in linux machine (Redhat 8.0), using gettext and setting > the environment variable LANG=hi_IN.UTF-8. It is working because hindi > fonts are installed in machine. > > So i tried the same on PXA but it is not working, so i thought of > installing indian fonts(hindi) using the TTF files. To install it we > require some commands (ttmkfdir,fonts.scale,mkfontdir,chkfontpath etc). > But in my PXA i don't have the above commands. > > Please any of you guide me how should i install fonts, and what are the > necessary requiremnts to install it. > > Thanks and Regards, > Naveen. > > > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig > _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
