Bundle Font with Aircraft

[xcvb]

I'm not really happy with the available fonts in FlightGear so I wonder if there is a way to include the correct font (osifont-gpl2fe.ttf) in the directory of the aircraft (also GPL2). Is there a way that the font-mapper can find it?

[Thorsten]

It'd be generally preferred to add the font to FGData if it is GPL. Though it is possible to include it with the aircraft, you just have to specify the path.

[xcvb]

I wonder how this should work. I tried the following:

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      var font_mapper = func(family, weight)
      {
         if(family == "'Liberation Sans'" and weight == "normal") {
            return "Aircraft/do328/Models/osifont-gpl2fe.ttf";
         }
      };


but then I get the following error:

canvas::Text: No such font: Aircraft/do328/Models/osifont-gpl2fe.ttf

If I copy the the font to the fgdata/Fonts folder then it works but this is not an optimal solution.
I cannot commit something to fgdata but if you are interested you can find it here: https://github.com/hikikomori82/osifont

[erik]

I'm almost certain I got that working at one day, before the font was moved tot FGData.
You might want to experiment with the path (omitting it entirely or removing Aircraft/do328)

Erik

[sanhozay]

Long shot: it's not the old 1 vs l misspelling bug is it?

[xcvb]

I'm almost certain I got that working at one day, before the font was moved tot FGData.
You might want to experiment with the path (omitting it entirely or removing Aircraft/do328)

Erik

Do you know on which aircraft? If it was on git or svn maybe it is possible to recover an old version. I also placed it to "Aircraft/do328/osifont-gpl2fe.ttf" and also tried it with and without "Aircraft/do328/" but still no success.

Long shot: it's not the old 1 vs l misspelling bug is it?

I double checked it:

$ ls Aircraft/do328/osifont-gpl2fe.ttf
Aircraft/do328/osifont-gpl2fe.ttf

[erik]

Do you know on which aircraft? If it was on git or svn maybe it is possible to recover an old version. I also placed it to "Aircraft/do328/osifont-gpl2fe.ttf" and also tried it with and without "Aircraft/do328/" but still no success.

Sorry for the late response, I've been busy lately.
It was a local version before I committed it to FGAddon (of the paraglider).
To bad I don't seem to remember the details.

But if it's not working it would be worthwhile to have this option.

Erik

[TheTom]

It should be possible to put the font in a 'Fonts' subdirectory of the aircraft and then just use the font's filename.

[xcvb]

It should be possible to put the font in a 'Fonts' subdirectory of the aircraft and then just use the font's filename.

This works! Thank you very much!