On Jo, 29 dec 11, 10:34:43, Curt wrote: > Running squeeze. The display command (ImageMagick) gives the following > warning (the app will not open at all): > > display: unable to load font > `-microsoft-verdana-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*': Resource temporarily > unavailable @ error/xwindow.c/XBestFont/825. > > xdpf says : > > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-microsoft-verdana-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct > > Why are these apps looking for a microsoft font? Google hasn't been > helpful in resolving this problem.
I'm guessing the pdf was built using that font. > I am running a recent squeeze netinstall. I do have missfont.log from > that install in my home directory. Could be related? How do I resolve > this? Arial, Times New Roman and Courier New can be replaced with the Liberation family (package ttf-liberation), but don't know about Verdana. I seem to recall there is a method to tell your system which font to use as replacement. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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