Carol Spears wrote:
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:07:11PM -0500, Michael Luich wrote:
I have a user who keeps getting :
font '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-*-*-540-72-72-P-*-ISO10646-1' not
found.
How exactly do they "get" this message? Does it appear in a GIMP error
dialog?
I can recreate it by trying to use the text tool to insert Helvetica
bold.
RHEL 3
Everyhting seems to be default.
Oh, well Red Hat would never configure anything wrong, so it must be
user error ;-) (Can you tell I'm a *former* Red Hat user?)
I can't seem to figure where it's trying to get this font from. I
can't find
anything like ISO10646 fonts although I have ISO8859 fonts.
Exactly. GIMP wants a Unicode font, but you don't have it.
I suspect the GIMP is trying to select fonts based on your locale
settings. I'm not up to date with this stuff, so I can't give you
anything authoritative, but a good starting point in diagnosis might be
to check your language settings. E.g. what does
echo $LANG
tell you? If it says, e.g.,
en_US.utf8
then that probably accounts for GIMP wanting an iso10646 font. If that
is the case, then try running the GIMP from the command line with
LANG=en_US gimp &
or perhaps
LANG=en_US.iso8859-1 gimp &
[there are several ways to spell the encoding; you might have to play
with it a bit]
So, what if changing LANG does indeed solve the problem? There are
several options:
1) Change the default LANG for your system ... this is the easiest
solution, but could well cause problems with other applications.
Best experiment thoroughly on yourself before inflicting this on
anyone else.
2) Install/configure Unicode fonts as needed.
3) Create a wrapper script for the GIMP that does something like:
export LANG=en_US
exec /usr/bin/gimp
And there are probably other solutions too ...
I'm sure I'm
missing something simple.....
which gimp are you using? and what does RHEL 3 mean?
RHEL is Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
gimp-2.whatever doesn't ask for fonts this way.
There are several layers involved in font handling, so the error could
be coming from a deeper level. However, I think you may be right anyway.
The not-found font name is an XLFD (X Logical Font Descriptor); GIMP 2.x
uses the newer Xft font mechanism. I don't think Xft uses XLFDs at all
... but then I really don't understand Xft, so I could easily be mistaken.
--
Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO, USA
