Re: Default Fonts For Object

[Andrey Repin <anrdaemon freemail ru>]

Greetings, John L . Poole!

> I spent several hours following the suggestions and trying various
> alternative and finally discovered I had set up a C:\Home directory and 
> there was a .dia directory that when renamed, caused my session to start 
> up without any error messages and the fonts working properly.  Clearly, 
> I had altered some configuration setting that was affecting Dia's startup.

> The lesson learned here is that if you are having problems in Windows, 
> make sure to check your Home directory, too, if you have tainted your 
> environment with something such as HOME=C:\Home.  When I renamed my 
> C:\Home\.dia file, the problem went away.

> Also, my configuration file for the problem session, defaults.dia, had this:

> <dia:attribute name="font">
> <dia:font family="sans" style="0" name="Helvetica"/>
> </dia:attribute>

> <dia:attribute name="font">
> <dia:font family="Arial" style="0" name="Helvetica"/>
> </dia:attribute>

> <dia:attribute name="font">
> <dia:font family="sans" style="0" name="Helvetica"/>
> </dia:attribute>

> The fresh install configuration has this:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <dia:diagram xmlns:dia="http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/"/>

> My system does not have Helvetica installed, so the specification of 
> Helvetica above is probably what was corrupting my objects and the font 
> renderer used the placeholder glyph, a bar or rectangular box, in 
> substitution.  In my experimenting with shapes, I must have imported 
> something or done something to change the default specification to 
> Helvetica causing all objects taking the properties from the default to 
> inherit this value.

Sounds like it. Glad you got your issue solved.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon freemail ru) 22.01.2012, <00:15>

Sorry for my terrible english...