[Koha-devel] Adding fonts to Koha for label creator

[Christopher Nighswonger]

The concept of your patch looks great, David. I'm sorry I can't test it at
the moment.

I did add a comment on your description in order to clarify the purpose of
the 12 default fonts.

Kind regards,
Chris

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:37 PM <dcook at prosentient.com.au> wrote:

> Thanks again for your help!
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> I’ve tried your suggestion, and I tried adding options to
> C4::Creators::Lib with mappings in koha-conf.xml. Both ideas worked.
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> For now, I think I’ll advise people to use your suggestion (and use
> Javascript to change the labels in the Staff client).
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> I’ve opened a bug report (
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=25384) to
> improve this in the future. I think I’ll even have a quick crack at it.
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> Cheers,
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> David Cook
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> *From:* Koha-devel <koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org> *On
> Behalf Of *dcook at prosentient.com.au
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 5 May 2020 9:21 AM
> *To:* 'Christopher Nighswonger' <chris.nighswonger at gmail.com>; 'Bernardo
> Gonzalez Kriegel' <bgkriegel at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* 'koha-devel' <koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Koha-devel] Adding fonts to Koha for label creator
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> Thanks Chris and Bernardo for getting back to me so quickly.
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> That’s good to know, although from the user experience point of view I
> don’t think that it’ll be sufficient, since it would still have the old
> font name in the web UI.
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> I’ll take a deeper look today and report back.
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> David Cook
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> Systems Librarian
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> Prosentient Systems
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> 72/330 Wattle St
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> Ultimo, NSW 2007
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> Australia
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> Office: 02 9212 0899
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> Online: 02 8005 0595
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> *From:* Christopher Nighswonger <chris.nighswonger at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, 4 May 2020 10:51 PM
> *To:* Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <bgkriegel at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>; koha-devel <
> koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Koha-devel] Adding fonts to Koha for label creator
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> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 6:25 AM Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel <
> bgkriegel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi David,
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> How does one add fonts to Koha for the label creator?
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> I’m curious about adding “Arial” ( or rather LiberationSans-Regular.ttf as
> matched by fc-match) and “Arial Bold” (or rather Roboto-Regular.ttf as
> matched by fc-match) to the Koha label creator.
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> I see we have a hard-coded list of font types in C4/Creators/Lib.pm. There
> is also a list of TTF files in etc/koha-conf.xml.
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> Changing paths in koha-conf.xml is enough, replacing entries for H and HB
> or any other.
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> Hard-coded fonts are effectively defaults. They are installed by a
> dependency (I don't recall which atm.).
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> Substituting fonts is done as Bernardo pointed out.
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> Chris
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