Re: Missing fonts in FC2 and 0.6.16

[Paul Dickson]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:49:32 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:

> FC2 uses xorg rather than XFree86.  Are there differences that prevent
> skencil from finding fonts?
> 
> When I start skencil, I get:
> 
> shared memory images supported
> Could not load font '-misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' for 
> ruler. using defaults.
> Could not load font '-misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' for 
> ruler. using defaults.
> Could not load font '-misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-[0 11 ~11 
> 0]-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' for ruler. using defaults.
> 
> If I attempt to use text, I get pop-ups with similar errors, just with
> specific font names.

The ghostscript fonts are now in /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript.  I
guess I'll rebuild skencil with this directory in the font_path of
Sketch/Base/config.py and see what happens...

        -Paul