Dear Rob
It is possible to alter the fonts used by CCP4i by going into the
"System Administration" -> "Configure Interface" window in CCP4i, and
scrolling down to the bottom where there is a folder called "Fonts".
This shows you the font sets current defined in the interface, which is
where you will see the strings like
"-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-O-Normal--*-120-*"
You can edit these to reflect something that is available on the system
- I suspect that replacing the word "Adobe" with an asterisk might work,
however I haven't tried this myself (and I don't know how to easily
query the fonts that are available on the system - perhaps some X11 guru
could give some suggestions on this?).
Hope this helps
Peter
CCP4ibb for Neutze Gp. wrote:
Dear colleagues,
On upgrading our machines to Mandriva Linux 2008 I see
extremely ugly fonts in CCP4i and Mosflm. It is almost
impossible to read the job list in CCP4i (see attached
screen shot). And Mosflm actually crashes with the error:
** xdl_view error in routine xdl_open_view **
** Unable to load *adobe-courier-medium-r*--8* font **
Other ActiveTcl dependent programs are also affected. This
was never a problem before, only happens with Mandriva
2008. Even Ubuntu 7.10 works fine (no clever comments
thanks about switching to an alternative OS, Mandriva 2008
is other wise outstanding).
As an example, we are running:
Dell Precision 390, Duo core 6700, nVidia Quadro FX 3450
with correctly configured drivers from nVidia.
Has anyone else seen this, or resolved it? Is an
alternative ActiveTcl version required, and how do I
implement this? Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.
Best wishes, Rob
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