Anyone else using Linux, and wanting SPIonic to work?

Pete Keller (psilord) has come up with a way to make SPIonic work on Linux. The recipe has several stages. Anyone else want to give that a try? If it works for someone else, I’ll add it to the “how to display Greek” sticky post.

My father also got this to work (which was really nice, because he hates fonts and is not studying Ancient Greek himself). I use Mozilla (Build ID : 2004060712) with Linux from Scratch (the customize-your-own-Linux distro which only computer pros like my father can get to work), and when convinient I will test this font with Redhat as well. My father said he made a few adjustments for the differences of system, but my computer lingo is not good enough to understand it.

My dad thinks the ‘perfs’ should be ‘prefs’.

Thank you.

Cool.

My father said he made a few adjustments for the differences of system, but my computer lingo is not good enough to understand it.

That’s fine. This is an operation for someone comfortable with Unix anyway, and used to making that sort of adjustment.

My dad thinks the ‘perfs’ should be ‘prefs’.

Yep. I’ll fix that.

You can get rid of the root part if you make the truetype font directories relative to your home directory or something and adjust the font directories mentioned in my additions to prefs.js. That would work nice for a singularly personal install of firefox or something.

By the way, even before this, Ghostviewer was able to read spionic font in PDF files (on the other hand, it can only handle PDF files which are text-based, not bitmap-heavy).