Re: ImageMagick (display) unable to load font

2016-03-02 Thread Curt
On 2016-03-02, wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 05:22:21PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: >> On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 13:09 +, Curt wrote: >> > I don't how to solve this problem.  Why an open source program would >> > ask >> > for a proprietary font in order to work is beyond my comprehension. >

Re: ImageMagick (display) unable to load font

2016-03-02 Thread Curt
On 2016-03-02, wrote: > > To slowly crawl near, try > > display -font '-b&h-*-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' > > (I'm assuming you've got some b&h fonts, like lucida -- otherwise use > a font spec of an existing font; in a pinch, make sure you have the > program xfontsel and you can do: > > display

Re: ImageMagick (display) unable to load font

2016-03-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 05:22:21PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 13:09 +, Curt wrote: > > I don't how to solve this problem.  Why an open source program would > > ask > > for a proprietary font in order to work is beyond my c

Re: ImageMagick (display) unable to load font

2016-03-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 03:54:26PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2016-03-02, wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 01:09:54PM +, Curt wrote: > >> > >> Trying to run the 'display' command from ImageMagick without an argument > >> gives the following "

Re: ImageMagick (display) unable to load font

2016-03-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 13:09 +, Curt wrote: > I don't how to solve this problem.  Why an open source program would > ask > for a proprietary font in order to work is beyond my comprehension. I doubt it needs it, it wouldn't be in Debian main if it did.  I'm guessing this is some configuration

Re: ImageMagick (display) unable to load font

2016-03-02 Thread Curt
On 2016-03-02, wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 01:09:54PM +, Curt wrote: >> >> Trying to run the 'display' command from ImageMagick without an argument >> gives the following "error" (the app does not open at all): >> >> curty@einstein:~$ display >> display.im6: unable to load font >> `-

Re: ImageMagick (display) unable to load font

2016-03-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 01:09:54PM +, Curt wrote: > > Trying to run the 'display' command from ImageMagick without an argument > gives the following "error" (the app does not open at all): > > curty@einstein:~$ display > display.im6: unable to lo

ImageMagick (display) unable to load font

2016-03-02 Thread Curt
Trying to run the 'display' command from ImageMagick without an argument gives the following "error" (the app does not open at all): curty@einstein:~$ display display.im6: unable to load font `-microsoft-verdana-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*': Resource temporarily unavailable @ error/xwindow.c/XBestFon