Now I'm experiencing the same problem in Ubuntu 12.10. No symbol fonts render when using text/font; I only get the latin text equivalent. I tried this using the Dingbats font built into Ubuntu along with custom symbol fonts I had downloaded. Both Dingbats and the other symbol fonts I downloaded work fine in other programs.
The system where this did work correctly was an Ubuntu 12.04 machine (running under a VM). The Ubuntu 12.10 machine I'm using now is a fresh OS installation using the 64-bit binary downloaded from the Racket site. Is anyone else using Ubuntu 12.10? Can you try running the following code? (require 2htdp/image) (text/font "test" FONT-SIZE "black" "Dingbats" 'symbol 'normal 'normal #f) This should render some triangles and a snowflake, not "test". Thanks! On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu>wrote: > The text/font function ultimately just calls find-or-create-font with > the font details and then draw-string on the dc<%> with the string, so > I guess that this is either a problem at that level of the Racket GUI > system, or something that is just different about how Windows works > from other platforms. (Sorry I don't know the right answer here.) > > Robby > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Clement Erik Ferguson > <clementraph...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm a newcomer to Racket and I ran into a problem with the text/font > > function in 2htdp/image. stamourv on #racket helped me diagnose this, > and it > > seems to be a problem confined to Windows XP. When using text/font with a > > symbol font like Wingdings or Symbol (standard symbol fonts included with > > Windows) the character is not rendered. Instead, I get whatever the > > equivalent Roman character would be. > > > > For instance: > > > > (define testingfont > > (text/font "012abc" 36 "black" > > "Wingdings" 'default 'normal 'normal #f)) > > > > If I then type testingfont into the interactions window, instead of > > rendering a series of symbols I get the input string 012abc instead. I > also > > tried using 'symbol instead of 'default. We tried the same code on Debian > > (stamourv) and Ubuntu (me) and it worked fine on those platforms. > > > > I'm running Windows XP 32-bit, and I am using Racket 5.3.1. > > > > Thanks! > > > > ____________________ > > Racket Users list: > > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > >
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