[magick-users] imagick_type_gen enhancement

[T o n g]

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:36:56 +1000, Anthony Thyssen wrote:

> This is a good enhancment, however can you change it to be a command
> line option instead.
> 
> For example
>    imagick_type_gen -d /path/to/my/fonts > my_type.xml
> 
> Will create a type.xml for a specific directory 

hmm... I think the most important feature of my hack is *decoupling* of 
the generation of font list and font registration. To me that's the most 
important enhancement. 

For example, if to use -d, then how to add more directories? Moreover, 
given the command above what if I only want to register the ttf fonts 
under it, not pfb or afm ones? More options? what if I want to omit a 
specific sub directory under /path/to/my/fonts? even more options? 

Decoupling the font list generation and font registration will eliminate 
all the above problems and many more that I haven't listed.

> rather than using locate. 
> this way it remains backward compatible with how it is currently
> used.

hmm... locate has it niche, as said, it is good to add all fonts within 
the system to ImageMagick once. if to use "-d /" and 'find' instead of 
locate to add fonts system wide, it would be more than 30 times slower. 

Again, my solution has a good balance: to add fonts system wide:

 slocate -ir '\.\(ttf\|pfb\|afm\)$' | imagick_type_gen

To work with one or more specific directories:

 find /path/to/my/fonts /path2 ... | imagick_type_gen

For more complicated cases, there is still the last resort -- the freedom 
of manually editing the font list. 

Please reconsider. 

Thanks

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