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[mgp-users 01127] Re: Problem with font rendering and Magicpoint on MacOsX/Fink

I'm not familiar with MacOSX and Fink, but according to the error messages,
it seems to me that this code was not built with freetype libraries.
Magicpoint does not support freetype2, you have to use freetype1 instead.
--
Yoshifumi Nishida
nishida@csl.sony.co.jp



From: Marc Baaden <baaden@smplinux.de>
Subject: [mgp-users 01123] Problem with font rendering and Magicpoint on MacOsX/Fink
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:45:03 +0100
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 > Hi,
 > 
 > I have installed Magicpoint ported by Simon Cozens (see eg
 > http://diveintoosx.org/MagicPoint.html) as well as freetype2.
 > I have experienced several "issues", the most annoying one is
 > that there seems to be some problem related to font usage.
 > 
 > 
 > FONT PROBLEM
 > ------------
 > 
 > When I try to start a presentation, the font is extremely ugly
 > and I get the following error messages:
 > 
 > /Users/marc/.mgprc:10: warning: directive "tfdir" not supported in this configuration
 > /Users/marc/.mgprc:15: warning: directive "tfont0" not supported in this configuration
 > 
 > corresponding to the lines
 > tfdir "/Library/fonts"
 > tfont0 "/Library/fonts/Arial.ttf"
 > 
 > and
 > 
 > t.mgp:16: warning: directive "tfont" not supported in this configuration
 > t.mgp:16: warning: directive "tmfont" not supported in this configuration
 > 
 > from the presentation itself.
 > 
 > Truetype fonts as such, as well as antialiasing, seem to work. I can
 > for instance start xterm using Arial.
 > 
 > What am I doing wrong or missing ?
 > 
 > NB: I have installed freetype2, but I have also alternatively tested
 >     freetype2-hinting. Neither of them works. What is the difference ?
 > 
 > 
 > MACOSX TITLE LINE
 > -----------------
 > 
 > Is it possible to get rid of the MacOsX Title/Menu-Bar ?
 > If not, would it at least be possible to get some user defined
 > text in there (like the title of each slide, ...) ?
 > 
 > 
 > Thanks in advance for any tips and suggestions,
 >   Marc Baaden
 > 
 > -- 
 >  Dr. Marc Baaden  - Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris
 >  mailto:baaden@smplinux.de      -      http://www.marc-baaden.de
 >  FAX: +49 697912 39550  -  Tel: +33 15841 5176 ou +33 609 843217
 > 
 > 
 >