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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      So, because I've had problems even getting the data I've ignored the fact that you've been also getting the filename and grepping out by path. What is the reason for this. So you only get fonts that works in SketchUp?

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        This worked on my machine:

        <span class="syntaxdefault"><br />data&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=&nbsp;(`</span><span class="syntaxstring">/usr/X11/bin/fc-list&nbsp;;&nbsp;file&nbsp;family&nbsp;|&nbsp;grep&nbsp;\/Library\/Fonts</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">`)<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">fonts&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">data</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">scan</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(/[^;]+[;]\</span><span class="syntaxdefault">s</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">*(.*)/).</span><span class="syntaxdefault">flatten</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">!<br /></span><span class="syntaxdefault">fonts</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">map</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">!&nbsp;{&nbsp;|</span><span class="syntaxdefault">string</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">|&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">string</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">split</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxstring">','</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)&nbsp;}.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">flatten</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">!&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxcomment">#&nbsp;Some&nbsp;lines&nbsp;include&nbsp;multiple&nbsp;fonts.<br />&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault"></span>
        

        😍

        Now it's just a matter of reliably finding the path on all the systems.

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
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          <span class="syntaxdefault"><br />def&nbsp;get_osx_fonts<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;fc_list_locations&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=&nbsp;[<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxstring">'/opt/X11/bin/fc-list'</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxstring">'/usr/local/bin/fc-list'</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxstring">'/usr/X11/bin/fc-list'<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">]<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">fc_list&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">fc_list_locations</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">find&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">{&nbsp;|</span><span class="syntaxdefault">location</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">|&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">File</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">exist</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">?(&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">location&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)&nbsp;}<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;if&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">fc_list</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">nil</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">?<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">puts&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxstring">'Warning;&nbsp;Could&nbsp;not&nbsp;find&nbsp;fc-list!'<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">return&nbsp;[]<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">end<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;data&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=&nbsp;(`</span><span class="syntaxstring">#{fc_list}&nbsp;;&nbsp;file&nbsp;family&nbsp;|&nbsp;grep&nbsp;\/Library\/Fonts</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">`)<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">fonts&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">=&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">data</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">scan</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(/[^;]+[;]\</span><span class="syntaxdefault">s</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">*(.*)/).</span><span class="syntaxdefault">flatten</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">!<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">fonts</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">map</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">!&nbsp;{&nbsp;|</span><span class="syntaxdefault">string</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">|&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">string</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">split</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">(</span><span class="syntaxstring">','</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">)&nbsp;}.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">flatten</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">!&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxcomment">#&nbsp;Some&nbsp;lines&nbsp;include&nbsp;multiple&nbsp;fonts.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">fonts</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">uniq</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">!<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">fonts</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">.</span><span class="syntaxdefault">sort</span><span class="syntaxkeyword">!&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxcomment">#&nbsp;(!)&nbsp;Not&nbsp;UTF-8&nbsp;compatible!&nbsp;But&nbsp;better&nbsp;than&nbsp;nothing.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class="syntaxdefault">fonts<br />end<br /></span>
          

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            driven
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            hi TT,
            I did PM before I saw this, I would split it into 3 conditional block

            the first would use /usr/local/bin/fc-list
            if you revisit http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=48761&p=443899#p441686 you'll see that you don't need to grep /usr/local/bin/fc-list, because it avoids the system and X11 fonts already.

            second choose last in find /**/bin/fc-list array, for the latest X11 version

            third default to 'FontBook' it's on every mac....

            john

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            • thomthomT Offline
              thomthom
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              Isn't fc-list on every mac?

              Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                driven
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                @thomthom said:

                Isn't fc-list on every mac?

                TT... don't you read PM's or the posts... [I am laughing]

                reminds me of when you answer some of your 'clients'

                The whole reason I went round in circles is fc=list has never been 'standard' on a mac.

                a lot of people use to have xcode and it came with that as part of fontconfig for X11,

                or if you have Wings3D, Gimp, Inkscape or Imagemagics you'd have it, so a few SU'ers will. but they all have FontBook it's a mac core app....

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                  driven
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                  TO RECAP
                  This is the fastest I can get a usable list from X11
                  if I remove .split[-2] from fontPath it uses /usr/local/bin and is twice as fast, same result... so the one could be used for any fc-list installed, without hardcoding a path.

                   fontPath=(`find /*/*/bin/fc-list`).split[-2]
                  fontList=(`#{fontPath}  ; file family | grep \/Library\/Fonts`).split("\n").collect { |f| f.split(";")[1] }.collect { |f| f.split(",")[0].strip}.to_a.uniq.compact.sort[5..-5]
                  

                  the .sort[5..-5] cleans out the dot files at top and some other cruft the the bottom...
                  john
                  EDIT: I missed a .strip that stop them running... leading whitespace.
                  on test a couple are getting through that shouldn't
                  *** macFonts group Error! *** i = 38 chunk = 4 font = Bitstream Charter Error #<TypeError: reference to deleted Group> Error: #<TypeError: (eval):282:inname=': reference to deleted Group>
                  (eval):299
                  (eval):282
                  (eval):274:in times' (eval):274

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                  • thomthomT Offline
                    thomthom
                    last edited by

                    @driven said:

                    TT... don't you read PM's or the posts... [I am laughing]

                    I've become so confused on this whole topic. 😕

                    @driven said:

                    This is the fastest I can get a usable list from X11

                    fontPath=(find ///bin/fc-list).split[-2]
                    That command was very slow on my mac.

                    @driven said:

                    the .sort[5..-5] cleans out the dot files at top and some other cruft the the bottom...
                    Can you be sure this is the same on all machines? I'm hesitant to use magic numbers.

                    OSX is giving me headackes in regard to this plugin. I'm tempted to just drop it all together. Taking too much time.

                    At the moment I'm looking at first attempting fc-list, if it's installed. (Might have to do a search - so I have to cache that.) Then fall back to AppleScript and FontBook - also slow so it also needs a cache list (meaning the list won't automatically keep in sync.)

                    sigh

                    And that's not including the crashing...

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                      driven
                      last edited by

                      TT, maybe you want to move this, but
                      I was looking for a UFT8 font filter and came across a simple test code for checking console encoding.

                      I thought Ruby Console was UFT8, but it's not?

                      I made a little test script, and ran it both from console and from plugins.
                      same result from both...

                      >  msg = (`perl -Mcharnames=;full -CS -wle 'print "\N{EURO SIGN}"'`).to_s
                       puts msg
                       rply = (`locale`).to_s
                       puts rply
                       result = UI.messagebox msg, MB_YESNO
                       if result == 6 # Yes
                         UI.messagebox("Sketchup dosen't use UFT8, it uses \n" + rply)
                       end
                      N{EURO SIGN}
                      LANG=
                      LC_COLLATE="C"
                      LC_CTYPE="C"
                      LC_MESSAGES="C"
                      LC_MONETARY="C"
                      LC_NUMERIC="C"
                      LC_TIME="C"
                      LC_ALL=
                      1
                      

                      for comparison Terminal.app results

                      %(#008000)[johns_iMac at upstairs in ~
                      $ locale
                      LANG="en_US"
                      LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
                      LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
                      LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
                      LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
                      LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
                      LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
                      LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
                      johns_iMac at upstairs in ~
                      $ perl -Mcharnames=:full -CS -wle 'print "\N{EURO SIGN}"'
                      €]
                      john

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                      • thomthomT Offline
                        thomthom
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                        It's UTF-8.

                        Test example:
                        'ø'.unpack('C*')

                        Returns:
                        [195, 184]

                        Which is the correct byte values in UTF-8 encoding.

                        195 indicate the Latin1 page 184 points to ø on that page.

                        Don't know what the data you got from them commands where. But just by looking at the test data byte per byte you can tell it's UTF-8.

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                          driven
                          last edited by

                          yes that does return correctly,
                          which is why I can't understand why some thing get lost in transition...
                          same font Stix(NON-Unicde)
                          Top happens from Ruby Console as well as WebDialogs
                          Bellow is the Built in Tool
                          john

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                          • thomthomT Offline
                            thomthom
                            last edited by

                            hm... I've not have any problems with it.

                            Do you see this in the 3d text plugin I sent you?

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                              driven
                              last edited by

                              @thomthom said:

                              Do you see this in the 3d text plugin I sent you?

                              Top one... I was being discrete

                              ` > a = "2撖죺".unpack('C*')
                              b = a.pack('C*')
                              c = puts a.inspect
                              puts b.inspect

                              [50, 230, 146, 150, 236, 163, 186]
                              "2撖죺"
                              nil`
                              the puts should read [0, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250] "2撖죺"

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                              • TIGT Offline
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                                last edited by

                                Why are you using "C*" in the unpack and pack - doesn't that extract a character as an unsigned integer.
                                Shouldn't it be "U*" - which extracts UTF-8 characters as unsigned integers ?

                                TIG

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                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  Because I actually want to see each byte. Not the Unicode ID.

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                                    @driven said:

                                    the puts should read [0, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250] "2撖죺"

                                    ?
                                    Where are these numbers from?

                                    Why are you expecting a NULL byte? (That's usually a string termination in C.)

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                                      driven
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                                      I think this may be the root of my issues
                                      if you unpack(C), then pack(U) sh*t happens

                                      > a = "2撖죺".unpack('C*') b = a.pack('U*') c = puts a.inspect puts b.inspect [50, 230, 146, 150, 236, 163, 186] "2撖죺" nil
                                      and visa-versa
                                      > a = "2撖죺".unpack('U*') b = a.pack('C*') c = puts a.inspect puts b.inspect [50, 25750, 51450] "2\226\372" nil
                                      I think the first is happening somewhere

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                                        driven
                                        last edited by

                                        font = Arial Unicode MS
                                        SU Top again
                                        WD bottom
                                        look familiar

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                                          @thomthom said:

                                          Where are these numbers from?

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                                            @driven said:

                                            @thomthom said:

                                            Where are these numbers from?

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                                            That's from a questions that doesn't really make sense.

                                            Also:

                                            @unknownuser said:

                                            Seeing as JavaScript has 16-bit strings, I packed two bytes per character.

                                            Two byte per character isn't UTF-8.

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