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vovchik and those plogoing

Congratulations on those using this program it looks great.
I tried to use once before and flailed (fail with splashing about)
Here are my experiences which I blame on Bugman (as per tradition)
First of all I booted into Dpup Extrimo (a Guy dog derivative) I added loads of fonts
(can not remember from where I think it was a pet in the package manager)
Then I added plogo and dependencies
I ran plogo
When I created new logos, the old plogo font remained - no new lettering was possible.

. . . then . . . Firefox (a well known browser soon to be squeezed out of funding by 'We do no Evil' Google Corp) stopped displaying fonts . . .

Mama mia . . . I unloaded Image magick (which I think was from Lucid) and everything else . . . could not get back. No intention of installing a second browser, so am back in Slacko.

Has anyone got Plogo working in Puppy 5.3, is it safe
Is there any hope for the clawless clueless class?

Dear Lobster,

Sorry to hear about your problems. Plogo does not write to any font dir - and neither does ImageMagick. Plogo only writes to /tmp, where it creates symlinks to images and dumps temporary pics, and to $HOME/plogo, where it stores new images and creates a log. IM and Plogo read font dirs, however, but that is a pretty innocuous activity. Something else must be wrong - since there is nothing in the code that could cause that kind of FUBAR result. The source code (commented) is in the /usr/local/plogo/data dir (plogo.bac), so you can have a look yourself. I am puzzled.

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. Could it be that the system "readlink" command is missing from your /bin dir?

Hey Lobster,

First of all I booted into Dpup Extrimo (a Guy dog derivative) I added loads of fonts
(can not remember from where I think it was a pet in the package manager)

.....cut
then . . . Firefox (a well known browser soon to be squeezed out of funding by 'We do no Evil' Google Corp) stopped displaying fonts . . .

I would like a link to that "possible fonts pet package" to confirm my doubt
but looks like the default fonts were changed by the package
and from there everything was globally effected
causing the browser problem and all other related fonts problems

I would take a look at the "mystery package" if you link it

so you could a have an enjoyable experience
the next time

as you have been around a long time Lobster you already know this
when you have some time try again with just puppy pfix=ram
and try plogo without any new fonts then add fonts using the link
that vovchik provided in this thread this way you can pin point any problems
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 8&start=11


Joe

I tend to agree with big_bass that those additional fonts that got added were being used as default fonts.
It sounds like they got installed in the wrong directory.
I had also downloaded some fonts.
But I installed them to the correct directory and do not have the problem you seem to have.
Also, if you are running SeaMonkey, there is a setting that allows one to use their fonts. Make sure that has not changed.
The fonts being used by SeaMonkey are in Edit-Preferences-Appearance-Fonts.

See if any of them have been changed.

big_bass wrote: I would take a look at the "mystery package" if you link it

Hi Joe, thanks guys

I am pretty sure this is the one - I think we have had problems with mediafire before (silly code added somehow) - I may be wrong . . .
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 175#559175

I am in Slacko - and have loaded the SFS - will see what happens . . .
(No Plogo for now)

Hey Lobster

The update
thanks for posting the link

the problem was the default fonts were over written in
/usr/share/fonts/default/TTF
with the sfs called fonts_528.sfs

I repackaged it and renamed it with a _fixed and packaged it
as a tgz and uploaded it for an easy download

http://www.puppy2.org/slaxer/fonts_528_ ... 1_SLXR.tgz its 57MB of fonts !
P.S the guy did a good job collecting the fonts though

*it had nothing to do with Dpup Extrimo or plogo

all works correctly now
its more than safe its fun
enjoy

Joe

all works correctly now
its more than safe its fun
enjoy

Joe

Thanks Joe - you are a good fish

What are the licenses on all those fonts? Free for personal use, or free for any use?

vovchik,
How much trouble would it be to add an option for Save that would allow choosing the location to save the created logo to along with option to rename the saved file.

It took me a while to track down just where the created files were saved as it is not clearly stated where to find them.

Of course, it also took me a little while to figure out how to paste the created logo into another jpg file in Mpaint.
But that is done.

You have created one well polished utility here and I still have not tried out all the features/options it offers.

Using Racy 5.2.2
Downloaded the fonts from Joe Bigbass
added imagemagick from PPM
. . . then I sobbed - for I had no Plogo

Command line gave me:

Lobster,
Close Plogo and then try it again.
I also have problems at times with the color not being sent correctly and sometimes a restart of the program works.

I just tried it with the font (thank you Joe Bass!) that your capture shows with a color picked from my desktop and it worked fine.
You can also use the colors example from gtkdialog.
Run it and then select a color from there for Plogo.

I am running Puppy Lupu 520 and that is what I used trying to determine if I could duplicate your session of using Plogo.

So if you get no color when you select Create, it is a glitch.

Read further back in this thread for the posts concerning this.

Dear puppians,

I will revisit plogo - look at it again and try to determine why the colour setting stuff sometimes bombs. I do not see anything in the code that would interfere with the setting routine, but I will look again. As for the saving of logos in other locations, it is possible, but, when conceiving plogo, I wanted images in one place along with the log file so that new pics could be recreated again with the same settings. I have made use of that facility. I imagine a copy button could be included (reducing the width of the existing buttons) that would launch a file dialog. I'll look into that as soon as I finish writing a streaming radio player that is now occupying much of my time.

With kind regards,
vovchik

Lobster wrote:Using Racy 5.2.2
Downloaded the fonts from Joe Bigbass
added imagemagick from PPM
. . . then I sobbed - for I had no Plogo

Command line gave me:

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# plogo
convert: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libMagickCore.so.3)

--------------------------------------------------
GTK font name:  Abduction
IM font name:   Abduction-Regular
Font color:     #000000
3Dcolor:        #000000
Shadow color:   #000000
FONTERROR:      con
convert: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libMagickCore.so.3)
convert: unable to read font `FreeMonospaced' @ warning/annotate.c/RenderType/807.
convert: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libMagickCore.so.3)
convert: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libMagickCore.so.3)
convert: /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libMagickCore.so.3)
Image size:     396 x 69
--------------------------------------------------

Lobster, I do not know for sure if this will do it for you. But I had the same problem in Slacko 5.3.1 with missing libraries.
They are actually for PMagic but the main thing is they work.

So extract the attached file to /usr/lib and Plogo should work.

# plogo

--------------------------------------------------
GTK font name: Abduction
IM font name: +++ NOT IDENTIFIED +++
Font color: #D34545
3Dcolor: #834343
Shadow color: #CDA2A2

Thanks guys, well I have the fonts in root .fonts
copied them to the main font directory
so not sure why not identified . . .

Still nothing.

Dear puppians,

Some fonts do not show up because of the way GTK and IM interpret font names. They are what I call funky TTFs. You can actually go in with fontforge and change the font name and then it should work. I discovered that font names containing punctuation chars always cause problems, and a lot of Win fonts contain punctuation symbols. There are also so-called "bad" fonts that have overlapping glyphs - also a problem, but that can also be fixed in fontforge.

With kind regards,
vovchik

Due to circumstances of extreme security laxity (downloading undressed prawns from pirate bay again) I experienced the unbeknown (until now) - white screen of death

So I am now in a pristine Puppy
Installed imagemagick and Plogo as per Vovchick advice
Joes fonts
and nothing

. . . and then 8 bits suggestion . . .

I have plogo

Joy and rainbows. Puppys frisking in the streets.
Happy days are here again . . .

Dear Lobster,

I am glad you got it to work:) I actually think it's quite fun.

With kind regards,
vovchik

Now added to wiki http://www.puppylinux.org/wikka/plogo

Well with serif
but under puppy slacko 5.5
don't understand how to use fonts
only generic font name, san, serif are working

GTK font name: /root/.fonts/pilgrim.ttf
IM font name: +++ NOT IDENTIFIED +++
convert: impossible de lire la police de caractères `FreeMonospaced' @ warning/annotate.c/RenderT

GTK font name: /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
IM font name: +++ NOT IDENTIFIED +++

GTK font name: /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf
IM font name: +++ NOT IDENTIFIED +++
convert: impossible de lire la police de caractères `FreeMonospaced' @ warning/annotate.c/RenderType/879.


Regards