SetFont() on Linux

[Flinx]

Hello,

just noticed that SetFont() doesn't work on Linux, and GetAvailableFonts() also returns an empty list. I probably missed something basic. Is there any preparation needed?

Ralf

[airsoftsoftwair]

Hmm, where are the fonts stored on your Linux system? Hollywood checks these paths:

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/usr/share/fonts/truetype
/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype
/usr/share/X11/fonts/TT

[Flinx]

This is a Mint 20.3 (Cinnamon 5.2.7), but upgraded from an earlier version. The fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, but the one that I tried to install with the font-viewer is in ~/.local/share/fonts/

Examples:

fc-list | grep -i "ubuntu"

Part of the output:

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/Ubuntu-R.ttf: Ubuntu:style=Regular

Running this with the Interpreter:

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t = GetAvailableFonts()
DebugPrint(ListItems(t),"Fonts")
SetFont(#SERIF, 20)
SetFont("Ubuntu Regular",24)

produces the output

0 Fonts

and then the error

Cannot open font Ubuntu Regular with size 24!
File: SetFontTest2.hws (current line: 4 - In function: SetFont)

I tried without the "Regular", but the same effect.

The font I did install:

fc-list | grep -i "albertus"
/home/ralf/.local/share/fonts/911Fonts.com_AlbertusExtraBoldRegular__-_911fonts.com_fonts_qoqk.ttf: Albertus Extra Bold:style=Standard,Normal,Obyčejné,Regular,Normali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Orta

Yesterday before asking I tried with a Rocky Linux live ISO too (because I have no working Raspberry here at the moment), there are the fonts in
/usr/share/fonts - so this one can't work in any case?

Ralf

[airsoftsoftwair]

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This is a Mint 20.3 (Cinnamon 5.2.7), but upgraded from an earlier version. The fonts are in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/

That is weird. Hollywood scans /usr/share/fonts/truetype so it should find the fonts. Can you post the output of this code?

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For s$ In DirectoryItems("/usr/share/fonts/truetype") Do DebugPrint(s$)

~/.local/share/fonts/

That is a non-standard path. Have you tried adding that path to Hollywood's font search path using AddFontPath() and then try if GetAvailableFonts() can find the font?

[Flinx]

That is weird. Hollywood scans /usr/share/fonts/truetype so it should find the fonts. Can you post the output of this code?

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For s$ In DirectoryItems("/usr/share/fonts/truetype") Do DebugPrint(s$)

Here it is:

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Opening script SetFontTest3.hws...done
Compiling script...done
Preparing display...done
And Action!
fonts-deva-extra
tibetan-machine
ttf-khmeros-core
fonts-guru-extra
lohit-assamese
lohit-devanagari
lohit-oriya
fonts-orya-extra
fonts-telu-extra
Gubbi
dejavu
tlwg
lohit-tamil-classical
fonts-kalapi
samyak
Navilu
ubuntu
abyssinica
padauk
liberation
Gargi
kacst
Sahadeva
lohit-malayalam
liberation2
lohit-tamil
sinhala
Sarai
lohit-punjabi
pagul
malayalam
lohit-telugu
fonts-beng-extra
Nakula
freefont
fonts-yrsa-rasa
openoffice
fonts-gujr-extra
lohit-gujarati
lohit-kannada
noto
lao
samyak-fonts
lohit-bengali
.uuid
kacst-one
droid

~/.local/share/fonts/

That is a non-standard path. Have you tried adding that path to Hollywood's font search path using AddFontPath() and then try if GetAvailableFonts() can find the font?

That works:

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AddFontPath("/home/ralf/.local/share/fonts")
t = GetAvailableFonts()
DebugPrint(ListItems(t),"Fonts")
For Local k = 0 To ListItems(t) - 1
  DebugPrint("Family:", t[k].Family, "Weight:", t[k].Weight,
             "Slant:", t[k].Slant, "Bitmap:", t[k].Bitmap)
Next

SetFont("Albertus Extra Bold",40)
print("Hallo")
wait(300)

produces this output

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Opening script SetFontTest2.hws...done
Compiling script...done
Preparing display...done
And Action!
1 Fonts
Family: Albertus Extra Bold Weight: 80 Slant: 0 Bitmap: 0

and then shows the "Hallo" rendered with this font.

I have tried

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AddFontPath("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/")

but still 0 Fonts from GetAvailableFonts().

Then I did move the Albertus ttf file to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/, there GetAvailableFonts() finds it.
The difference to the other fonts is that they are in subdirectories:

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ls -ld /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 24  2021 /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/
ls -l /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu/
insgesamt 4308
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 356980 Jul 10  2015 Ubuntu-BI.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 333612 Jul 10  2015 Ubuntu-B.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 350444 Jul 10  2015 Ubuntu-C.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 409608 Jul 10  2015 Ubuntu-LI.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 415552 Jul 10  2015 Ubuntu-L.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 366992 Jul 10  2015 Ubuntu-MI.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 216208 Sep 26  2011 UbuntuMono-BI.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 191400 Sep 26  2011 UbuntuMono-B.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 210216 Sep 26  2011 UbuntuMono-RI.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 205748 Sep 26  2011 UbuntuMono-R.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 341324 Jul 10  2015 Ubuntu-M.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 386440 Jul 10  2015 Ubuntu-RI.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 353824 Jul 10  2015 Ubuntu-R.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240020 Mär  8  2019 Ubuntu-Th.ttf

I now tried

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AddFontPath("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu")

and got the 14 Ubuntu variants.

[Flinx]

In the meantime I did some reading. How about checking if fontconfig is available and getting the fonts that way too?

[airsoftsoftwair]

The difference to the other fonts is that they are in subdirectories:

Ok, that explains everything. Hollywood doesn't recurse into subdirectories. Will fix that.

In the meantime I did some reading. How about checking if fontconfig is available and getting the fonts that way too?

Hollywood has its own fontconfig I'm not sure if it's possible to get the path to the TTF/OTF files or individual TTFs inside TTC files. I think there was some reason why I didn't use fontconfig...

[airsoftsoftwair]

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- Fix [Linux]: Font directories are now scanned recursively because newer Linuxes often store fonts in
  subdirectories inside the system font directories