Hi Anton, Thanks very much for the extra info (and for teaching me something about font handling!). I can now confirm this in inkscape_0.48.1-0ubuntu1
After removing 70-no-bitmaps.conf and installing xfonts-terminus, I can see the "Terminus" font in the Inkscape fonts dropdown list. However, when I attempt to select it, Inkscape falls back to the default Sans. Thanks, Alex On 7 February 2011 19:24, Anton Zinoviev <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:08:07AM +0000, Alex Valavanis wrote: >> >> I am looking through some of the old bugs reported against the Debian >> package of Inkscape. Please could you let us know if you are still >> experiencing the problem you reported, in which an unusable bitmap >> helvetica font appears in the font menu in Inkscape? > > From what I can see, version 0.47.0-2+b1 of inkscape (Debian) displays > the bitmap fonts in its font sellection menu if these fonts are not > disabled. However, nothing bad happens if the user chooses a bitmapped > font -- in this case inkskape falls back to a scalable font. It would > be better to remove completely the bitmapped fonts from this menu, but > the current behaviour is also acceptable (in my opinion). > >> I am unable to test this easily, because I am using Ubuntu, in which >> bitmap fonts are disabled by default. > > You can remove temporarily /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf if > you want to enable the bitmap fonts. In Debian these fonts are also > disabled except for the Terminus font. I suppose in Ubuntu the Terminus > font is also allowed (package xfonts-terminus) as this font is still > useful for terminal emulators (xterm, etc.) and text editors (Emacs, > gedit, etc.). > > Anton Zinoviev > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
