Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:54:04PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: >> >> I have installed the free replacement for the Bakoma fonts on the >> machine running LyX and on the remote RH8 box. I have the non-free >> originals on the Tru64 box. If I run LyX locally on the Tru64 >> machine then all is Ok. If I log into the remote machine from this >> Tru64 box and run the remote LyX I get red text. >> >> So it appears that the two sets of fonts are incompatible? > > It depends whether LyX uses xft (only the QT frontend uses xft, > assuming that you have an XFT enables version of QT). > > Xft: > - Works only with the ttf fonts > - Font should be installed on the remove machine > - Works only if the local X server supports the RENDER extension > (check with 'xdpyinfo|grep -i render'), although I think that with > future versions of xft, this restriction will be removed. > > non Xft: > - Works with the pfb fonts from latex (should also work with the ttf > fonts) - Fonts should be installed on the local machine, and the X > server should support Postscript fonts.
Thanks Dekel. The remote LyX binary runs on a Debian machine that does indeed have an xft enabled version of Qt. Executing this binary remotely and displaying it on a RH8 box (also xft-enabled) all is fine. Displaying it on a Tru64 box that knows nothing about xft and I get the red text. The ttf fonts are definitely in the font path on this Tru64 box (witness that running LyX locally and all is fine). See why I'm confused? -- Angus
