Re: [racket] Distributing an app with required fonts

2012-05-01 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Tue, 1 May 2012 13:57:54 -0600, Kieron Hardy wrote: > WRT fonts: AFAIK the only way for Windows to see a font is to copy the font > file to the special Windows font dir, But that probably does not account for > programs like Word that can somehow bundle the font used along with the > document

Re: [racket] Distributing an app with required fonts

2012-05-01 Thread Kieron Hardy
Thanks for the info Robby and Matthias. Since my needs right now are simple, I'll look at the API and maybe I can cobble together enough of an installation script of sorts using Racket, rather than go the usual route of building an installer using VS or whatever. BTW, this SO thread (http://st

Re: [racket] Distributing an app with required fonts

2012-04-26 Thread Robby Findler
You probably will have to use the lower-level API directly. I think that you can use assemble-distribution with #:copy-collects argument to pick up a directory containing the font, and then, in the code, find the font file with collection-file-path. To make this work, you'd also need to use the oth

Re: [racket] Distributing an app with required fonts

2012-04-26 Thread Matthias Felleisen
I should have been more precise: "Your best bet is to try out ... " -- Matthias On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > Open DrRacket, choose Racket | Create Executable -- Matthias > > > > On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Kieron Hardy wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I need to

Re: [racket] Distributing an app with required fonts

2012-04-26 Thread Kieron Hardy
That will include the fonts also? On Apr 26, 2012, at 11:23, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > Open DrRacket, choose Racket | Create Executable -- Matthias > > > > On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Kieron Hardy wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I need to distribute an application (for Windows only at first

Re: [racket] Distributing an app with required fonts

2012-04-26 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Open DrRacket, choose Racket | Create Executable -- Matthias On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Kieron Hardy wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to distribute an application (for Windows only at first, without > source) along with a font or two that the application uses. > > What is/are the Racket way/s

[racket] Distributing an app with required fonts

2012-04-26 Thread Kieron Hardy
Hi all, I need to distribute an application (for Windows only at first, without source) along with a font or two that the application uses. What is/are the Racket way/s to accomplish this? Thanks in advance, Kieron Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users