DIRECTORY LAYOUT ---------------- The layout of demos, fonts, and data has been changed to reflect Debian practice. The following subdirectories of /usr/share/inventor are used for Inventor: /fonts - font files are searched for here /help - on-line help files for demos & applications /data - subdirectories for models, materials, textures The inventor-demos package installs its demos in /usr/lib/inventor, and looks for models and other data in /usr/share/inventor/data/demos. FONTS ----- When a font is requested, Inventor will check in the directory /usr/share/inventor/fonts for a file with the name of the font. No fonts are shipped with the code, however. Rather, the scalable fonts from XFree86 (xfonts-scalable) and ghostscript (gsfonts-x11) are used. The files in /usr/share/inventor/fonts are all symbolic links to the font file in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1. The links are made in using the script /usr/share/inventor/fonts/link-fonts.sh in the post install phase. Should these links become broken (e.g. if the target of the link is removed), please file a bug, and re-run the script by hand. Inventor will fall back to Utopia-Regular, if the requested font is not available. Odd things may happen if Utopia-Regular is not found. The link-fonts.sh script endeavours to ensure that a link of this name is always available. Please do the same if you modify the links. KNOWN BUGS ---------- There is a bug in the font handling code that causes inventor to misbehave when displaying a string containing an embedded space. I have added a kludge to the code that simply sets the width of a space to be 10. If the spacing looks odd, this may be the reason why. A fix would be welcome. THANKS ------ Many thanks to Marcelo E. Magallon for providing me with his unreleased packaging of this code. He showed me how to properly build the shared objects. Many thanks also to Eric Sharkey and Steve Langasek for setting me straight on the Debian policy for SONAMES.