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Re: [Fink-users] fonts in xfig

Robert Wyatt
Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:38:38 -0800

Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 1/21/10 10:57 AM, ChengHsin Hsu wrote:
>> Dear experts,
>>
>> I recently switched from 10.5 to 10.6.2.
>>
>> I found that xfig cannot load the right fonts. That is, no matter which 
>> fonts I choose, it falls back to "default" right away.  What confuses me 
>> more is that xfig didn't complain missing fonts when I launched it in X11. 
>> Did I forget install some xcode related packages/components?
>>
>> BTW, I tried macport, and saw the same thing.
>>
>> Many Thanks,
>> Cheng
>>
>>
>
> Can you please clarify what you're doing?  For example "when I launched
> it in X11" is somewhat mysterious, since xfig is an X11 application, and
> so therefore is always launched in X11.
>
> Please give a more detailed description of the two circumstances that
> you are comparing, such as
>
> 1)  I launched it from the OS X Terminal, and got missing fonts errors.
> 2)  I launched it from the X11 application menu, and there were no such
> errors.
>
> putting in what you _actually_ did, of course.
> - --
> Alexander Hansen
> Fink User Liaison

Alex is really an expert at this so I would like to offer, without 
detracting from Alex's questions, that perhaps issuing the command:
sudo texhash
... might conceivably resolve the issue and certainly wouldn't hurt 
anything.

--Robert

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