On Fri, 17 May 2002, Robert Young wrote: > The current FreeType code relies on X providing a font path list, and on > this list containing paths to TrueType and other fonts. Under RH7.3 the > XFree86 supplied has the font paths specified correctly. It doesn't > however, load the modules which enable XFree86 to interpret these fonts > and hence XFree86 discards the paths to these fonts from the font path. > Hence dia complains about not having any fonts, and the usual suspect, > the font path, is not to blame.
But if you tell X to load the modules, won't it work? > I note that other programs which use freetype have a list of hard coded, > or user supplied, font paths. Should we look at this, or do a hack by > looking for an xfs configuration file (/etc/X11/fs/config) and using the > chkfontpath (a RH utility) code to extract font paths? If it exists, we can use it. In fact, we can include hard-coded common font paths as well. The more the merrier. > I am concious that most RH7.x users will have the same troubles I have > experienced when we make a release. > > I'm willing to cut some code if required. That would be nice. Using XGetFontPath was the quick and easy way. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
