Re: [SLUG] getting more fonts

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Thu Jul 22 2004 - 23:01:08 EDT


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The error I get in Dia is the following:
"Warning no X Font for Helvetica found,
using -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-%d-*-*-*-*-*-*-* instead."

I know I have this with xfontsel:
- -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

I know this is going to sound silly, but I don't know (and can't see) the
translation of %d in xfontsel. Maybe it's like a "C" syntax?? Anyway, I
know I have this font is my point, yet Dia, and other programs, don't have
this font as a selection.

How do I go about letting them know?

/mario

On Thursday 22 July 2004 16:23, you as Eben King wrote:
> 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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