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pdf2printable hidden dependency

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GNUser:
I tried using pdf2printable.tcz (to convert a pdf file to pwg file) in a barebones TCL box (my router) and the terminal became filled with these messages:


--- Code: ---some font thing failed
some font thing failed
some font thing failed
some font thing failed
some font thing failed
--- End code ---
This warning/error is not very helpful, so troubleshooting was long and tedious. The fix turned out to be simple: Loading Xorg-fonts.tcz.

In the TCL14, TCL15, and TCL16 x86_64 repos, can one of the devs please add Xorg-fonts.tcz to pdf2printable.tcz.dep?

Rich:
Hi GNUser

--- Quote from: GNUser on February 27, 2025, 09:45:37 AM --- ...
--- Code: ---some font thing failed
 ----- Snip -----
some font thing failed
--- End code ---
This warning/error is not very helpful, so troubleshooting was long and tedious. ...
--- End quote ---
What are you talking about. It pointed you right to the issue, fonts.
How do you expect software to be bloat free if you start to include
error messages like:
Font foo missing
File bar.ttf not found
File format in xyzzy.pcf not recognized.
No usable fonts found ::)

pdf2printable.tcz.dep updated in the TCL14, TCL15, and TCL16 x86_64 repos,

GNUser:

--- Quote from: Rich on February 27, 2025, 10:27:34 AM ---What are you talking about. It pointed you right to the issue, fonts.

--- End quote ---
Hi Rich. Fair enough.

My first thought was that I needed to do ln -s /usr/local/etc/fonts /etc/fonts. When that didn't help, I was left to comparing the difference between a TCL box where the extension was working with the TCL box with the problem. If I didn't happen to have a TCL box where the extension was working (my daily driver laptop), I'm not sure I would have figured out how to fix the problem based on this error message.

But all's well that ends well. Thanks for fixing the .dep file.

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