Subject: RE:Font question ....
From: Travis Newhouse (newhouse@cs.ucsd.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 05 2001 - 14:03:27 CDT
If anyone is curious, I found the problem. An alias had been setup by
an installation of ghostscript, however, the target font was not added
to the fonts.dir file. I re-ran "type1inst" in my Type1 fonts
directory, and it solved the problem.
Thanks to all who replied and gave help.
-travis
On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Travis Newhouse wrote:
> I checked my XF86Config file, and found that
> Load "type1"
> was present in the "Module" Section.
> Any other ideas?
>
> I tried using 'xfontsel' to display the font AbiWord is complaining
> about, and it causes the font dsplay portion of the window (the
> bottom section) to freeze. By "freeze" I mean that the portion of
> the window is not being redrawn (and artifacts of menus and other
> windows remain). So, this leads me to believe that there is
> definitely somethign wrong with rendering this font. Could it be the
> font files themselves?
>
> Also, I realize this list may no longer be appropriate for the
> problem, so if someone has a referral to a more appropriate mailing
> list or resource, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Travis
>
>
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Gregg Morris wrote:
>
> > Be sure that your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file contains this:
> > Load "type1"
> > In the "Module" Section:
> >
> > # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
> > # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
> > # the X server to render fonts.
> >
> > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
> > FontPath "unix/:7100"
> >
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "Module"
> > Load "GLcore"
> > Load "dbe"
> > Load "dri"
> > Load "extmod"
> > Load "fbdevhw"
> > Load "pex5"
> > Load "glx"
> > Load "pex5"
> > Load "record"
> > Load "xie"
> > Load "type1" ## Loads Microsoft Fonts
> > Load "speedo"
> > EndSection
> >
> >
> > Burn Alting writes:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a RedHat 7.0 system running a 2.4.5 kernel (from kernel.org)
> > >
> > > I grabbed abiword 0.7.14, compiled and installed it. When I go to run
> > > abiword, I get an error saying the font
> > >
> > > [-*-Times New Roman-regular-r-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*]
> > >
> > > is not available through my (xfs) font server.
> > >
> > > After reading your docs, I went to www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack
> > > and picked up their Times New Roman fonts, but they don't include the
> > > font abiword wants.
> > >
> > > The utility, xlsfonts, shows the fonts I picked up from microsoft -
> > > so those installed correctly (Times New Roman-bold-i-normal, Times New
> > > Roman-medium-i-normal, Times New Roman-medium-r-normal and Times New
> > > Roman-bold-r-normal).
> > >
> > > Can you tell me where I can find the font requested?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Burn Alting
> > > burn@goldweb.com.au
> > >
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