How can I install fonts for the dillo web browser

Ido Ilan · 01-12-2008, 01:40 PM

Hi all,
As the title says: how can I install fonts for the dillo web browser?
Thanks

Ido Ilan · 01-19-2008, 02:07 PM

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serge · 01-19-2008, 06:20 PM

There is some info on fonts here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...4&postcount=37

Ido Ilan · 01-20-2008, 04:00 AM

Hi,

Thanks for the answer.
I don't have a Linux/UNIX box, and I have very little knowledge on how to use the os.
I've D/L fonts in pcf format, added them to the dillo and run.sh and changed the dillorc file, but it doesn't seems to work.
The fonts was in a directory with a fonts.dir and fonts.alias files but were not compressed in gzip as the font that came with the dillo, does it matter?
Any suggestion?

Thanks

serge · 01-22-2008, 09:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ido Ilan

I don't have a Linux/UNIX box

You do. Your iliad is a linux box. You can install dropbear on the iliad and an ssh client on your Windows (e.g. putty)/Mac (macosx is unix-based and has native ssh/scp) and/or an scp client (e.g. winscp on Windows). You can then connect to the iliad, transfer files and open an iliad terminal on your desktop/laptop computer.

I tried to change fonts in dillorc, and it worked. Try to contact Antartica as s/he is the one who ported dillo and probably knows more about it than anyone else on this forum.

Ido Ilan · 01-22-2008, 01:42 PM

Hi,

Thanks again for the help.
Could you please point me to a download page for the program you specified and to a good (newbie) tutorial on them.
ssh, scp and the others things you mentioned says nothing to me. I'm a windows user (yes, I'm little shamed) and know nothing on linux.
I need some more help on the connection and terminal thing.

Thanks in advance,
Ido

serge · 01-22-2008, 03:16 PM

"Things you can do with your iLiad":
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15934
"Install an SSH server and have it automatically started at boot":
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10225

You can click on "Search this forum" and search all of the iliad subforums here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=99

You can use any search engine to find more information, e.g.:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...e+Search&meta=
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=...7SbKGC1kMxNVVQ

serge · 01-23-2008, 09:59 PM

I forgot to mention that there are several dillo versions around.
By editing dillorc, I could change fonts in this one: dillo-0.8.6_iliad-0.7.zip.

But not in dillo-i18n.tar.gz - only font scaling was possible. This one is a more useful version, for me, because it can display utf-8 properly. The font here looks fine and I would not want to change it anyway.

All versions are not perfect, and in different ways. For instance, google.ru looks fine in minimo, by looking at the html source, I can see that the charset is indeed utf-8. But in the internationalized dillo, this web page is displayed in windows-1251 and it is unreadable. While cyrillic hits in google.co.uk are displayed correctly. This dillo also allows one to read Russian wikipedia. I wonder if there is a site that could convert win-1251 and koi8-r to utf-8 on the fly. Google does it for its cached pages, but if one follows the links, they take him to the original site, where the text is unreadable again...

01-12-2008, 01:40 PM	#1
Ido Ilan Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: Irex Technologies Iliad	How can I install fonts for the dillo web browser Hi all, As the title says: how can I install fonts for the dillo web browser? Thanks

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Ido Ilan Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: Irex Technologies Iliad	117 views, no one know the answer

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01-20-2008, 04:00 AM	#4
Ido Ilan Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: Irex Technologies Iliad	Hi, Thanks for the answer. I don't have a Linux/UNIX box, and I have very little knowledge on how to use the os. I've D/L fonts in pcf format, added them to the dillo and run.sh and changed the dillorc file, but it doesn't seems to work. The fonts was in a directory with a fonts.dir and fonts.alias files but were not compressed in gzip as the font that came with the dillo, does it matter? Any suggestion? Thanks

01-22-2008, 01:42 PM	#6
Ido Ilan Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: Irex Technologies Iliad	Hi, Thanks again for the help. Could you please point me to a download page for the program you specified and to a good (newbie) tutorial on them. ssh, scp and the others things you mentioned says nothing to me. I'm a windows user (yes, I'm little shamed) and know nothing on linux. I need some more help on the connection and terminal thing. Thanks in advance, Ido

01-22-2008, 03:16 PM	#7
serge Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 80 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: iRex iLiad	"Things you can do with your iLiad": https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15934 "Install an SSH server and have it automatically started at boot": https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10225 You can click on "Search this forum" and search all of the iliad subforums here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=99 You can use any search engine to find more information, e.g.: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...e+Search&meta= http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=...7SbKGC1kMxNVVQ

01-23-2008, 09:59 PM	#8
serge Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 80 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: iRex iLiad	I forgot to mention that there are several dillo versions around. By editing dillorc, I could change fonts in this one: dillo-0.8.6_iliad-0.7.zip. But not in dillo-i18n.tar.gz - only font scaling was possible. This one is a more useful version, for me, because it can display utf-8 properly. The font here looks fine and I would not want to change it anyway. All versions are not perfect, and in different ways. For instance, google.ru looks fine in minimo, by looking at the html source, I can see that the charset is indeed utf-8. But in the internationalized dillo, this web page is displayed in windows-1251 and it is unreadable. While cyrillic hits in google.co.uk are displayed correctly. This dillo also allows one to read Russian wikipedia. I wonder if there is a site that could convert win-1251 and koi8-r to utf-8 on the fly. Google does it for its cached pages, but if one follows the links, they take him to the original site, where the text is unreadable again...

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