This page paraphrased from Prasad Chodavarapu's site at http://chaitanya.bhaavana.net. Please visit it for more details
îN{Ád{ h}=Z+â (tikkana Fonts) are widely used on the internet for displaying telugu on web pages.gunzip tikkana.tar.gz
tar xvf tikkana.tar
xset fp+ $PWD/tikkana/type1 xset fp rehash
xlsfonts | grep tikkanaYou should see
-tikkana-tikkana-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
xfs
) is restarted).
To make it persistent, you will
need permissions to edit X configuration files.
If you are a novice, you can safely skip this step and redo the steps 4, 5 and 6 whenever tikkana fonts do not appear in your browser.
xfs
:
On Linux Mandrake 6.0, the xfs
configuration file is
/etc/X11/fs/config
. Your system may have
it at a different place.
Add $WHERE_tikkana_IS/tikkana/type1
directory to the end of
catalogue
entry in this file.
Replace $WHERE_tikkana_IS
with the full path to the directory where
tikkana/type1
is located.
Don't forget to add a comma at the end of the
previous filepath entry before you add this one.
xfs
:
You have to add an extra FontPath
directive to XF86Config
file.
It can usually be found at /etc/X11/XF86Config
.
If its not there, try
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config
or /usr/X11/lib/X11/XF86Config
or
something similar. One you have found it, edit it, look for the
last FontPath directive, and add the following line after that
FontPath "$WHERE_tikkana_IS/tikkana/type1"Replace
$WHERE_tikkana_IS
with the full
path to the directory where tikkana/type1
is located.
kfm
) is also
a web browser and tikkana appears great in there.
ghostview/ghostscript
ghostview/ghostscript.
Just set the environment variable
GS_FONTPATH
to
$WHERE_tikkana_IS/tikkana/ghostscript
before invoking these programs.
On sh/ksh/bash
, do
export GS_FONTPATH=$WHERE_tikkana_IS/tikkana/ghostscriptOn
csh
setenv GS_FONTPATH $WHERE_tikkana_IS/tikkana/ghostscriptReplace
$WHERE_tikkana_IS
with the full
path to the directory where tikkana/type1
is located.
GS_FONTPATH
as explained above
and use
ghostview.
Most applications including netscape don't do a good job setting fonts in postscript. One way out is to use the wprint filter to fix the postscript produced by netscape browser before it goes to the printer. Another way out is to hack the ps file.
For netscape produced output, look for the line,
/Times-Roman findfontand replace it with
/Tikkana findfontThough you would now see tikkana text, any text in Times-Roman would also be displayed in tikkana :-(