[Fontconfig] RE: Specifying location of fontfiles in fonts.conf file.

[Patrick Lam]

Why don't you edit ~/.fonts.conf and add the full path?

pat

Rupa Kamoji wrote:
> Hello,
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> Can anybody please help me in solving this problem? It has become an
> urgent issue for me....
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> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> Rupa.
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> From: Rupa Kamoji 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 6:46 PM
> To: fontconfig at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Specifying location of fontfiles in fonts.conf file.
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> Hello,
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> When I install fontconfig on any Soalris or Linux machine, a directory
> called "fonts" is created in /usr/local. This directory has a file
> "fonts.conf". In this file on line number 26, there is a listing of
> directories in which fontconfig will look for font files. 
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> Now, I want to add a directory of mine in which I have installed all the
> fonts. For example as below:
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> <dir>$MYFONTFILES/fontfiles</dir>
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> Where $MYFONTFILES is an environment variable which has some directory
> path assigned to it.
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> Specifying the path using an environment variable is not working.
> Fontconfig is not able to get the value of this environment variable. If
> I specify a full path, it is able to get the fontfiles, for example as
> below..
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> <dir>/mydisk/usr/home/mysettings/fontfiles</dir>
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> Can you please help me in specifying the path using an environment
> variable? How will I use environment variable to specify the path? This
> is required for me so that I don't want my customers to set this path in
> fonts.conf file. 
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> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> Rupa.
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