anyone who runs mathematica on a system with a lot of fonts (like if you run
a TT font server) will run into this problem.  here's the fix.

pete

ps- yes, at 4779 i am a "font freak".

Subject: Re: [mg27787] "fonts not properly installed"...

> > Can you run the following command for me on a shell running on the machine
> > where the X server is running?
> >
> > xlsfonts | wc -l
>
> > This will let me know how many fonts are available on the X server.  Let
> > me know what you find.
>
> % xlsfonts | wc -l
>    4779

Just as I suspected!

By default the X front end requests a maximum of 2000 XLFDs when it
queries X for a list of available fonts.  You can ratchet this number up
by editing the file Specific.tr in

<path to Mathematica installation>/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/TextResources/X

Locate the following lines in that file:

@@resource maxForXListFonts
2000

Change the number 2000 to something larger like 5300 and restart the front
end.

Let me know if that makes the problem go away.

-- 
P.J. Hinton
User Interface Programmer                         [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wolfram Research, Inc.

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