Federico Beffa wrote:
> I have some problems with fonts in xfig, a drawing program. The program uses
> PostScript type1 fonts. However, no matter which font I select, or which font
> size I specify, I always get the same font with the message similar to "Can't
> find Helvetica-12 font, using 6x13 instead".
>
> Investigating a little bit I have noticed that in OpenSolaris 2009.06 there
> is no type1 module (/usr/X11/lib/modules/amd64/libtype1.so). Is it in a
> separate package? (I couldn't find it). Is it statically linked into X?
> (Nothing about type1 in the log file)
We have followed the Xorg upstream lead in replacing the old type1 module
with use of the Type1 support in the freetype module instead. (The
separate Type1 code predates FreeType usage by many years - FreeType
was originally added to provide TrueType support, but since it also
has Type1 support and is already loaded into memory, it was decided
to use it, instead of loading a second Type1 support module into
memory.)
However, there is no Helvetica Type1 font delivered with OpenSolaris 2009.06.
You can see the limited selection of Type1 fonts in the directory
/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 - the fonts.dir & fonts.alias files will
show what their names are for classic X applications.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
