I have a set of local fonts that I'd like to apply on my text in PangoML.
AFAIK the way to specify fonts is through the font family attribute in the span element. But where/how can I specify a path to the otf file containing the fonts I'd like to use?
I've also tried setting the font through imagemagick, but then it seems to apply the font to multiple texts.
graphicsMagick(900, 150, "#FCF6EA")
.font(`${__dirname}/static/fonts/Graphik-SemiBold.otf`, 1)
.fontSize(52)
.out('-background', '#FCF6EA')
.out('-size', '890x', 'pango:TOPTEXT_WITH_FIRST_FONT'
.out('-gravity', 'NorthWest', '-geometry', '+10+10')
.out('-compose', 'atop')
.out('-size', '850x', 'pango:BOTTOMTEXT_WITH_DIFFERENT_FONT')
.out('-gravity', 'SouthWest', '-geometry', '+30+10')
.out('-compose', 'atop')
.out('-composite')
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I'm using the GNU texinfo package to generate both PDF and .info files from a .texi file.
I'm trying to update an old .texi file (not changed since 2001) and generate the same PDF output. I've resolved a number of issues, but there are a couple outstanding. In the old PDF, the title was in Helvetica and body text is Liberation Serif. In the new PDF, both are Computer Modern.
I've read everything that I can find about fonts, but I'm not able to change the fonts. Nothing that I do seems to work. Everything I have tried generates errors.
In my .texi file, before any \setfont directives, I have \def\fontprefix{uh} which, if I read the pdftex.map file correctly, should select the NimbusSanL font set (e.g. uhvr8a.pfb). I get the following errors:
mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation for uhss10.
kpathsea: Running mktexmf uhss10
! I can't find file uhss10'.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; ; nonstopmode; input uhss10`
Does anyone have a example .texi file which sets the font family to use? Or an explanation of what I'm doing wrong?
I am trying to embed truetype font Treubuchet MS in a PCL5 generating program.
But I've stumbled on a problem. To embed and use the the font I should know its typeface, when selecting it for use in the *.pcl file. But I can't find a reference, where fonts and their typefaces(numbers) are described.
To be more precise, I am using the below sequence for selecting Treubuchet MS regular:
esc(s0S esc(s0B esc(s25513T esc(6982X
Explanation:
not italic, not bold, typeface of font, id of font to be loaded to printer.
But my currently selected typeface (25513) is wrong and the font is not sent and loaded to the printer (soft font added in the file).
Could you help me with this?
As far as I can see, the font ID you need is the one supplied when you created, and downloaded, the soft font.
Note that on page 189 of the PCL 5 reference (section 11-5 Soft Font Creation, in case you have a different version of the spec) it says:
Use the Font ID command to designate a unique ID number prior to the
download of a font header. If an existing font is already associated
with this ID, the existing font is deleted upon the download of the
font header.
The Font ID command can be found on p156 of my copy of the spec:
The Font ID command is used to specify an ID number for use in
subsequent font management commands. The ID number of a font can be
used to select the font for printing (refer to “Font Selection by ID”
in Chapter 8). E C *c#D
# = ID number Default = 0 Range = 0 - 32767 The font ID number is used during subsequent soft font downloads, selections or deletions. The
factory default font ID is 0 (if no Font ID command is sent, an ID of
0 is assigned).
So before you download the soft font you should specify the font ID of the font, eg:
esc*c1D
Then download the font. When you want to use the font you downloaded then you select it with:
esc(1X
Still not a PostScript question though :-)
I'm trying to place my custom fonts into Resources/Fonts/MyFontFamily subdirectory, however I'm having problems on how to load them from the code.
In my info.plist I've added:
<key>UIAppFonts</key>
<array>
<string>/Fonts/MyFontFamily/MyFont-Regular.ttf</string>
In the code I do
var font = UIFont.FromName(#"/Fonts/MyFontFamily/MyFont-Regular.ttf", 14);
However the font is null, If I place the font directly in the Resources folder and change info.plist and font path in the method UIFont.FromName accordingly it does load the font. Is it not possible to have custom fonts placed in Resources subdirectory?
Edit: I've tried both with and without "/" at the start of the path.
info.plist
<key>UIAppFonts</key>
<array>
<string>Fonts/MyFontFamily/MyFont-Regular.ttf</string>
Note: Do not include "/" at the beginning of the array string.
Note: This assumes that your fonts are in the Fonts/MyFontFamily subdirectory of your Resources.
Flag your fonts to Always Copy:
Code:
var font = UIFont.FromName(#"MyFont-Regular", 20);
Note: This is the font name as seen in the Font Book
i.e.:
PinyonScript-Regular.ttf
Is opened via:
var font = UIFont.FromName(#"Pinyon Script", 20);
Quick font name check, open the font in Font Book and look at the name of the font in the title bar:
Dont think you need the "Fonts" bit at the start of the path try :
var font = UIFont.FromName(#"MyFont-Regular.ttf", 14);
OR
var font = UIFont.FromName(#"MyFontFamily/MyFont-Regular.ttf", 14);
problems to print with different fonts on my Zebra ZQ520:
as described in documentation, I've downloaded some new font through the official Zebra Font Downloader program, comic and verdana. After this, I found the new fonts in E: storage area. So the script:
^XA^HWE:^XZ
give me:
LIST OF FONT LINKS
- DIR E:.
* E:COMIC_02.CPF 7359
* E:VERDAN02.CPF 163 ....
- 66589184 bytes free E: ONBOARD FLASH
and trying to print example string from font downloader program, it print with the installed font with success.
The problem appens if I try to print a label. The printer seems not consider the .CPF files in ZPL commands.
My tests, without success, are:
1) following the procedure indicated in https://km.zebra.com/kb/index?page=content&id=SO7891 , assigning a designator to new font, with the script:
^XA^CWQ,E:COMIC_02.CPF^XZ
and trying to print something as:
^XA^FO50,50^AQN,50,50^FDSAMPLE CoMiC^FS ^XZ
seems not working (is it not possible to assign a designator on .CPF files??)
2) (not working too) test, I tryed to print something with the ^A# command, also without success. Example:
^XA^FO50,50^A#N,50,50,E:COMIC_02.CPF^FDSAMPLE CoMiC^FS ^XZ
Where is the problem? with printer (updated with the last firmware, V76.19.15Z)?
or ZPL can't print font stored in .CPF files?
or ..??
thanks!
The ZQ500 supports multiple printing languages. It ships with the PnP string stating that it is a CPCL printer. This tells the Zebra Setup Utility to generate a CPCL compatible font (.CPF). Since you are looking to print using ZPL you need to generate a font compatible with ZPL.
https://km.zebra.com/resources/sites/ZEBRA/content/live/SOLUTIONS/8000/SO8535/en_US/ZebraNet_Bridge_Font_Converting.pdf
This will use a different program to package a .ttf font for the printer. ZPL has support for truetype fonts so you will have better scaling of the font.
The ^CW and ^A# commands will both work with the ttf font.
I am using the OBJLoader to load a large 3D model (described in a .obj file) and I want to display the models name on its surfaces. Though it seems that Three.js can only display English characters. My question is how can I display Chinese characters in Three.js?
there are a couple of ways to display text (https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Text-in-Three.js), but since exporting a chinese font might be more difficult, it might be easier to draw the chinese characters to a canvas texture and use the texture as a material in the scene.
It seem that you can use Facetype.js to get a Chinese font library, for example"YaHei_Regular.typeface.json" , then you can show Chinese characters.
var fontLoader = new THREE.FontLoader();
fontLoader.load("YaHei_Regular.typeface.json", (font)=> {
this.font = font;
});
Another option is using msdf-bmfont-xml. This example uses Microsoft YaHei.
charset.txt —
你好，世界
You may need to install dependencies first. Then:
npm install msdf-bmfont-xml -g
msdf-bmfont -f json yahei.ttf -i charset.txt --pot --square
and finally, use three-bmfont-text to render the text.
Three.js doesn't display Chinese regularly because it doesn't support the charset. You have to load it dynamically.
It seems there're two methods to load: 1, new THREE.TTFLoader().load('*.ttf') , it loads a ttf file that support Chinese charset. But I failed.
2, new THREE.FontLoader().load('*.json') it loads a json file transformed by
the ttf on http://gero3.github.io/facetype.js/ website.
But firstly you have to find a complete ttf file. I tried 方正兰亭超细黑简体 and 方正赵佶瘦金书 which both work, you can google and download ttf file. I found some ttf can't be identified by three.js completely. You perhaps see some Chinese char display normally but others still display '?'.
The final code snippets as following:
const three_font = new THREE.FontLoader();
three_font.load('*.json', function (font_font) {
font=font_font
})
// finally add text with font
const geometry = new THREE.TextGeometry(
{
font: font,
size, height: h, curveSegments: 4, bevelThickness: 2, bevelSize: 2, bevelEnabled: true
});
geometry.computeBoundingSphere();
geometry.computeVertexNormals();
const mesh = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, pool.textMaterial);
mesh.position.set(x * deviation, y, z * deviation);
mesh.rotation.set(rx, ry, rz);
scene.add(mesh);