Re: Accessing fonts actually listed.

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Jonas Printzén wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> Running Dia 0.90 in a RedHat 8 installation.
> Mainly doing UML modelling.
>
> I have been using dia a little by now and I think it's funktional enough
> to be usefull for my purposes. However I am having problems with fonts. I
> know fonts is not a simple matter but if the font is present in the list
> provided by Dia I would expect it to work. I get a list of fonts but when
> I select one of them MOST of the times Dia complains and revert to a very
> ugly setting.

I was about to blame this on the XFLD/Freetype font name schism, but I see
Redhat compiled it without freetype support.  Which means that only the
standard Postscript fonts are really usable, as those can be printed.  The
fonts that should work are Courier, Helvetica, Times and Symbol.  Some
Postscript printers also understand Avantgarde, Bookman,
NewCenturySchoolbook, Palatino, and Zapfchancery.  Other fonts cannot be
printed without Freetype, as the X font system doesn't give us access to
the font files.

In the CVS version, we dropped XFLD totally and switched to Freetype for X,
which does at the moment show some of the same problems you mention, but
I'm about to fix that.

> Note! The font is there! And it can be viewed by xfontsel and in KDE's
> font-settings.
>
> Please advice! How do I find any errors in my installation that might
> stop Dia from using the fonts...
>
> FEATURE REQUEST:
> It would be nice to be able to set the default fonts in diagrams. In
> my case the
> default is one of the fonts not viewable by Dia. So im not getting
> anywhere and must revert to other, lesser, tools.

Fonts for most things can be set by double-clicking their icons and setting
defaults there.

-Lars

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