I have escaped gnome font hell, and even though I may only have made
it to purgatory, the accommodations look pretty luxurious.
Following the note at http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ I dropped the
contents of http://www.gnome.org/fonts/local.conf into /etc/fonts/
local.conf, and now I have most of the printing I need. I also
discovered some new font display features in gnucash 1.9, too.
It looks like I could have made the file ~/.fonts.conf instead, but
since the first attempt worked, I'm not fired up for further testing
yet.
The new .conf file merely assigns the appropriate Bitstream Vera
fonts as targets of the Sans-serif, Serif, and Monospace aliases in
the fontconfig realm. Reading some of the other comments, it looks
like gnome these days just assumes you have a version of fontconfig
that has the Vera family assigned/registered.
I'm left with the feeling of being trapped in a time-warp to 1987 and
some of the early font substitution 'challenges'.
Dave
On Apr 9, 2006, at 10:40 PM, David Reiser wrote:
I'm having troubles with printing in gnome2 apps. Various apps will
send a job to the printer, but I get a mostly blank page out.
Occasionally, there are some simple graphics (straight lines, for
instance), but generally no fonts get rendered.
The print preview screen is accurate -- whatever does or doesn't
show up there is what gets printed (or not). The xterm window
frequently shows complains about something not being able to find
Sans, but gedit (and other apps) can display Sans fine.
Firefox seems to print well. And yelp 2.14 succeeded in printing
the main pane of a page with text appearing.
gedit 2.6.2-1002, gnumeric 1.4.?, and gnucash 1.9.x do not print
well.
Last December, I did install xorg in an effort to resolve a problem
with yelp. When that didn't solve the yelp problem, I went back to
Apple's X11 (and I tried to follow the faq carefully during that
reversion). Everything but printing seems to work with my current
setup.
Does anyone who does get libgnomeprint2.2 dependent apps to print
have any words of wisdom? Is there something in one of the font
configuration utilities that I might have missed when trying to
clean up an X swap? I did build my current bundle-gnome completely
from scratch in a clean fink tree.
Mac OS X 10.4.6 (but my problems started long before the last
system upgrade)
fink 0.24.15, 0.8.1.rsync, 10.4 branch (but I have identical
problems in a 10.4-transitional install)
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