Added a notice about msttcorefonts in the README.

[webpdf] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index 7b745d35d8c41d18dd83e3a9e0073667f3e338ad..0599a3394e91cde8cf54f5a29c3e379946974f93 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ You'll need:
   - A web server (I use Apache 2, with mpm-itk[1] to separate the ugliness
     from the rest of the server installation).
   - ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/).
   - A web server (I use Apache 2, with mpm-itk[1] to separate the ugliness
     from the rest of the server installation).
   - ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/).

-  - Perl (http://www.perl.org/), with the CGI module.
+  - Perl (http://www.perl.org/), with the CGI and HTML::Entities modules.

   - OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/ -- doh), tested with v1.1
     only. See below for special configuration needed.
   - GhostScript, probably almost any halfway recent version; newer ones
   - OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/ -- doh), tested with v1.1
     only. See below for special configuration needed.
   - GhostScript, probably almost any halfway recent version; newer ones


@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ You'll need:
     (http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-web-photo/, do
     cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome co gnome-web-photo
     to check out).
     (http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-web-photo/, do
     cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome co gnome-web-photo
     to check out).

+  - You might also want the Microsoft core fonts (or equivalent font set)
+    installed; it seems to make a big difference especially for OpenOffice.org.
+    (http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/)

 
 [1]: http://home.samfundet.no/~sesse/mpm-itk/
 
 
 [1]: http://home.samfundet.no/~sesse/mpm-itk/
 


@@ -50,6 +53,18 @@ output PostScript, but OK). It's going to be a “PDF converter”, using
 as command line, and your output directory as appropriate. Also remember to
 set the page size if you don't happen to prefer Letter already.
 
 as command line, and your output directory as appropriate. Also remember to
 set the page size if you don't happen to prefer Letter already.
 

+
+Special vim configuration
+
+You might want a simple .vimrc for your user as well; mine reads
+
+  set fileencodings=utf-8,iso8859-1
+  syn on
+  set bg=dark
+  
+(Yes, for some reason bg=dark looks better when printing. Don't ask me why.)
+
+

 Happy hacking :-)
 
   -- Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>, http://www.sesse.net/
 Happy hacking :-)
 
   -- Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>, http://www.sesse.net/