pdfontloader

tiny TCL extension to load fonts into the Pure Data GUI on Windows

Build

To build, run make and specify the location of a Pd release folder (aka build downloaded from Miller's site):

make PDDIR=../path/to/pd-release
make strip

The version of Tcl this is compiled against should match the version that is used by the Pd gui, currently Tcl/Tk 8.5.10.

Alternatively, if you want to test this extensions functionality without Pd, you may need to specify the version and location of Tcl via:

make TCL_VERSION=8.5 TCL_LIB_VERSION=85 TCL_INCLUDE=../path/to/tcl/include TCL_LIB=../path/to/tcl/lib

...or edit the variables above in the Makefile.

The result should be a pdfontloader.dll extension that can be opened in Tcl.

Usage

There is currently one command:

pdfontloader::load FILENAME

It is intended to be used within the Pd GUI in order to load a local font via something like:

catch {
    load ./pdfontloader.dll 
    pdfontloader::load ../font/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
}

The command above should add the following font family name to the list of available fonts returned by [font families]: "DejaVu Sans Mono."

Testing with Pd

Build pdfontloader using mingw32 as the current Pd Windows release is 32 bit:

make PDDIR=../path/to/pd-release

Once built:

1. copy pdfontloader.dll into the Pd bin folder
2. copy the font folder from the Pd git repo into the Pd folder
3. edit tcl/pd-gui.tcl and add the following at the end of the "win32" section of "init_for_platform" procedure:

            # load local font
            if {[file exists [file join "$::sys_libdir" "font"]]} {
                catch {
                    load [file join "$::sys_libdir" "bin/pdfontloader.dll"]
                    set path [file join "$::sys_libdir" "font/DejaVuSansMono.ttf"]
                    pdfontloader::load $path
                    ::pdwindow::verbose 0 "pdfontloader loaded [file tail $path]\n"
                }
            }

References:

• [TCLCORE] PRIVATE FONT-FILES IN TCLTK
• Hello World TCL C extension
• extrafont
• Pd: DejaVu Sans Mono as default font crossplatform