Hello everyone, Hans thank you for your reply. I did what you suggested but unfortunately the problem is still there. I also reinstalled Pd-extended. The output from the terminal is provided below. It seems the Bitstream fonts were already installed.
Regards Alex sudo aptitude install ttf-bitstream-vera Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initialising package states... Done Building tag database... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initialising package states... Done Building tag database... Done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo aptitude install ttf-bitstream-vera Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initialising package states... Done Building tag database... Done No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initialising package states... Done Building tag database... Done [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-get install --reinstall x-ttcidfont-conf E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall x-ttcidfont-conf Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/20.1kB of archives. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... ^T124971 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace x-ttcidfont-conf 27 (using .../x-ttcidfont-conf_27_all.deb) ... Cleaning up font configuration of x-ttcidfont-conf... Cleaning up category cmap.. Cleaning up category cid.. Cleaning up category truetype.. Unpacking replacement x-ttcidfont-conf ... Setting up x-ttcidfont-conf (27) ... Updating font configuration of x-ttcidfont-conf... Cleaning up category cmap.. Cleaning up category cid.. Cleaning up category truetype.. Updating category truetype.. Updating category cid.. Updating category cmap.. 2008/5/4 Hans-Christoph Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'll bet it is having trouble finding the Bitstream Vera fonts. Start out > by making sure they are installed: > > sudo aptitude install ttf-bitstream-vera > > Then try this: > > http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2007-10/055576.html > > .hc > > On May 4, 2008, at 10:06 PM, Alex Lucas wrote: > > Hello, > > I've recently installed Pd Extended 0.40.3 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04. I > seem to be having problems with the size of object boxes whereby the text > doesn't seem to fit inside the bounds of the object. I'm using a screen > resolution of 1440 x 900, when this is reduced to 1024 x 786 there is no > problem. I've also installed Pd Vanilla 0.40-2 which seems to be fine > regardless of the screen resolution. Please click on the link below for a > screen shot. > > http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2097/2464690219_11bd0677f5_o.jpg > > Any help would be greatly appreciated > Many thanks > Alex > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "It is convenient to imagine a power beyond us because that means we don't > have to examine our own lives.", from "The Idols of Environmentalism", by > Curtis White > > > > >
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