Re: dia and fonts [dia & freetype - part II]

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Torben H. Nielsen wrote:
> As some of the subscribers to the dia mailing list may have noticed, 
> I recently had a few problems concerning freetype & fonts.
>
> The last segfault i wrote about, was raised when the UML::Class tried 
> to use load the Helvetica-font, which I do not have as ttf (I do not 
> know whether Helvetica is available as TTF at all)
>
> Now I am wondering if it is possible to configure which fonts to use as
>
> default at compile time, or maybe it should be an option in the 
> preferences dialog.
>
> It should be possible to configure at least two families of fonts 
> - the Courier family and the Helvetica family.

What happens is this:

It tries to look up Helvetica as TT or T1 font.

If that fails, it tries to use the standard (built-in) translation from the
  PostScript font set to common TT fonts.  For Helvetica-Bold, it uses
  Numbus Sans L, Bold.

If that fails, it tries Courier.

If that fails, it gives an error, but unfortunately goes right on to use
the NULL font pointer.  I should try just any font, then return NULL if it
fails.

-Lars

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