[K12OSN] Schoolbell 1.2 pdf

[Eric Harrison]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Tom Hoffman wrote:

> On 8/29/05, Eric Harrison <eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us> wrote:
>
>>  From a quick test, it looks like the MS TrueType fonts are required:
>>
>>         Warning: font '/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts/timesbd.ttf' does
>>          not exist.
>>         PDF support disabled.
>
> For better or worse, you aren't getting off that easy, Eric.  The
> location of the fonts is set in schooltool.conf.in  So if X.org
> provides its own version of timesbd.ttf, there is a good chance it
> will work if you point to it.

How's this for an ugly hack.... I symlinked the Vera BitStream fonts
to the names of the MS Core fonts and pointed SchoolBell/SchoolTool
at the symlinks ;-)    (/etc/school[bell|tool]/fonts/)

I left the config for the real MS Core fonts commented out in the
config files so it is easy to change.

ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/testing/RPMS/schoolbell-1.2.1-k12ltsp.4.4.0b.i386.rpm
ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/testing/RPMS/schooltool-0.11.1-k12ltsp.4.4.0b.i386.rpm


-Eric