On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Mario Lombardo wrote:
> I would like every program to have access to all of my fonts. Right now, I
> find that a lot of them are disjointed and can't display a font of my choice.
> For example, in DIA, I can't use Helvetica.
Is it possible what you're seeing is a restriction like
monospaced/proportional?
> I'm not even sure if I have it.
> I've made a short list of font-related software on my machine. If there's
> anymore I should be aware of, please let me know.
Well, what problems are you seeing? "DIA can't use Helvetica." Is that
it? How do you know you have Helvetica at all? Would some
Helvetica-lookalike (e.g. Swiss) do?
> gnome-font-viewer
That should show the fonts available to Gnome, which runs in X (IIRC).
> /etc/X11/fs/config
> fslsfonts
Does X use a font server (xfs)? Otherwise, these don't matter.
> xfs
X Font Server
> xfsinfo
Try to run xfontsel.
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