Re: Startup problems, cant find suitable default font

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:12:25PM -0400, Peter wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm having trouble running gnumeric, when started all it does is
> present me with a dialog that says "Gnumeric failed to find a
> suitable default font. Please verify your gnome-print
> installation." and some more text about what i should report, so
> here goes:
>
> My fontmap-file seems to be called /usr/local/share/fonts/fontmap2, and all it contains are these two lines:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <fontmap version="2.0"/>

This is not good.  There should be some fonts in there.   Two
suggestions

1) Make sure you have at least the ghostscript type1 fonts
installed.

2) Re-install gnome-print

Good Luck
    Jody