Greetings, John L . Poole! > I spent several hours following the suggestions and trying various > alternative and finally discovered I had set up a C:\Home directory and > there was a .dia directory that when renamed, caused my session to start > up without any error messages and the fonts working properly. Clearly, > I had altered some configuration setting that was affecting Dia's startup.
> The lesson learned here is that if you are having problems in Windows, > make sure to check your Home directory, too, if you have tainted your > environment with something such as HOME=C:\Home. When I renamed my > C:\Home\.dia file, the problem went away. > Also, my configuration file for the problem session, defaults.dia, had this: > <dia:attribute name="font"> > <dia:font family="sans" style="0" name="Helvetica"/> > </dia:attribute> > <dia:attribute name="font"> > <dia:font family="Arial" style="0" name="Helvetica"/> > </dia:attribute> > <dia:attribute name="font"> > <dia:font family="sans" style="0" name="Helvetica"/> > </dia:attribute> > The fresh install configuration has this: > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <dia:diagram xmlns:dia="http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/"/> > My system does not have Helvetica installed, so the specification of > Helvetica above is probably what was corrupting my objects and the font > renderer used the placeholder glyph, a bar or rectangular box, in > substitution. In my experimenting with shapes, I must have imported > something or done something to change the default specification to > Helvetica causing all objects taking the properties from the default to > inherit this value. Sounds like it. Glad you got your issue solved. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 22.01.2012, <00:15> Sorry for my terrible english... _______________________________________________ dia-list mailing list dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
