I'm almost certain that Helvetica gets substituted by the system with an alternative on Mint 17.3 unless they added another font package.
The other issue with helvetica is that it is not a scalable true type
style font so looks like crud at all but certain sizes.
On 03/02/2017 07:36 AM, John Thornton wrote:
> Hevetica works fine on Linux Mint 17.3...
>
> JT
>
>
> On 3/2/2017 7:10 AM, dragon wrote:
>> It might be because Helvetica is a long since gone font that I doubt is
>> installed on your system. I have worked with another open source
>> software project that has a bunch of legacy helvetica font selection
>> hard coded into the C++. Boy that's a pain.
>>
>> Just pick a different font that you know is installed and see if that helps.
>>
>> On 03/02/2017 04:26 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Greetings all;
>>>
>>> For some reason I cannot grok, I must comment out the two lines isolated
>>> with xml comment strings in this xml code:
>>>
>>> <!-- start of jog size per click display -->
>>> <hbox>
>>> <vbox>
>>> <label>
>>> <text>"X-Jog size"</text>
>>> <!-- <font>("Helvetica",12</font> -->
>>> </label>
>>> <number>
>>> <relief>"raised"</relief>
>>> <bd>2</bd>
>>> <padx>23</padx>
>>> <halpin>"X-Jog"</halpin>
>>> <font>("Helvetica",18)</font>
>>> <format>".4f"</format>
>>> </number>
>>> </vbox>
>>> <vbox>
>>> <label>
>>> <text>"Z-Jog size"</text>
>>> <!--<font>("Helvetica",12)</font>-->
>>> </label>
>>> <number>
>>> <relief>"raised"</relief>
>>> <bd>2</bd>
>>> <padx>23</padx>
>>> <halpin>"Z-Jog"</halpin>
>>> <font>("Helvetica",18)</font>
>>> <format>".4f"</format>
>>> </number>
>>> </vbox>
>>> </hbox>
>>>
>>> Its a text holder box, why can't I specify the font. Without it, I think
>>> its using some other stick font at about size 10. That exact same
>>> syntax works in the "number" box. Why not in a label box?
>>>
>>> Thanks all. I'm going back to bed, need some zz's.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>>>
>>
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