DPCustomMono2

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In order to help proofers detect OCR errors, DP user Big Bill developed a custom font called DPCustomMono2.

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Comparisons to other fonts

DPCustomMono is not very æsthetically pleasing. Its main value comes from the stark distinction between characters that may look alike in other fonts – such as 1 ("one"), l ("ell") and I ("eye").

A sample of the font has been prepared as well as comparisons to other fonts.


Download

You can download the font file to your computer by right-clicking here and choosing "Save Target As...".


Installation

There are two easy steps to getting DPCustomMono2 running in the Proofing Interface:

  • Configuring your operating system (OS)
  • Configuring your proofing environment on the DP site.

OS Setup

Windows 98, 2000, XP

  1. Select Start->Settings->Control Panel
  2. Double-click Fonts
    A new window will appear
  3. In the File menu, select Install New Font.
  4. In the Drives drop-down box, select the drive you want.
  5. In the Folders list, double-click the folder that contains the downloaded DPCustomMono2.ttf file.
  6. In the list of fonts, click DPCustomMono2.ttf, and then click OK.

Windows XP alternative: Simply download the font and put it in the folder C:\WINDOWS\fonts.

Windows Vista

  1. Open Fonts by clicking the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Fonts.
  2. Click File, and then click Install New Font. If you don’t see the File menu, press ALT.
  3. In the Add Fonts dialog box, under Drives, click the drive where the font that you want to install is located.
  4. Under Folders, double-click the folder containing the fonts that you want to add.
  5. Under List of fonts, click the font that you want to add, and then click Install.

Macintosh OS 9

  1. This truetype windows font file will need to be processed before it can be installed on a Mac. You can use the TTConverter utility linked to from the upper right of this page to prepare it for Macintosh installation.
  2. (What do you do after you convert it?)

Mac OS X, 10.3 or later

  1. Copy the DPCustomMono2.ttf file into one of the following folders, depending on who needs access to the font.
    All users: /Library/Fonts
    Single user: <username>/Library/Fonts
  2. After installing the font, try logging out of your Mac and back in for the font installation to take effect.
  3. If the file downloads with a .txt file extension added, simply click on the file name and remove the .txt from it (a message will pop up asking if you're certain that you want to change the file extension).

Linux

With a modern XFree86, all you need to do is:

  1. If you don't have one already, make a local .fonts directory 
    mkdir ~/.fonts
  2. Copy the DPCustomMono2.ttf file to the new directory 
    cp DPCustomMono2.ttf .fonts
  3. Tell fontconfig about the new font 
    fc-cache

To get this font to work with an arbitrary X application, you want the font to show up in the output of the "xlsfonts" command. There are two indices needed besides the fonts.cache-1 created by fc-cache. They are fonts.dir and fonts.scale. These are built with the "mkfontdir" and "mkfontscale" commands. Here's what I did to make this font visible to everyone on my SuSE box: 

$ cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype
$ sudo cp ~/.fonts/DPCustomMono2.ttf .
$ sudo mkfontdir .
$ sudo mkfontscale .
$ sudo fc-cache .

You probably need to restart your X server or X font server (xfs) after generating these files.

The following sentence seems outdated, recent builds seem to work OK; probably to remove...

Mozilla Linux users: DPCustomMono2 will not work in binaries from Mozilla.org as they are compiled without xft support. This is so they can be used with older versions of X. You could compile your own: download the source from Mozilla.org and follow the build instructions. Building Mozilla will probably take several hours.

Added help: this howto is a long but comprehensive review of integrating fonts with Linux applications.

Proofing Interface Config

  1. Go to your Preferences page.
  2. Select DPCustomMono2 as the FontFace from the dropdown list of Fonts.
  3. Save your preferences!
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