Re: Font problem

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 31 May 2001, Jordi Rovira i. Bonet wrote:

> Hello,
>
>     I've installed Dia, on my Debian Potato system. It's the .DEB
>     package from Debian itself (version 0.86). It works ok, except of a
>     problem with the fonts.
>     It doesn't find the Courier*, Helvetic* fonts and it complaint abotu
>     it whe trying to draw a text object (or an UML class). If I use the
>     font "Palatino" it founds it, but most shapes use Courier as default
>     and i can't change them.
>
>     How can i fix this?
>     Where does Dia look for the fonts? Other X applications don't
>     complain when using courier, etc...
>     Can i change the UML shapes to use Palatino font so i can get by?

The set of fonts that Dia uses is currently hardcoded.  Fixing this is high
on the current list of to-do's.

-Lars

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