cant change font

["Garrone, Peter" <Garrone ali com au>]

I parse the following resource file from my application.

#------------------------------------------------------
style "all"
{
	font = "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
	fg[NORMAL] = {0,0, 1.0}
}
widget_class "*" style "all"
#------------------------------------------------------

This changes the text color to blue, proving that the style gets applied,
but the font size never changes when I vary the number "17" in the font to
say "8". 

I verify that the fonts exist with the "xfd" utility.

I would appreciate a list of possibilities of what the problem could be.

I am using gtk version 2.0 that came with mandrake linux 8.2 2.96-0.76mdk
In the include file gtkversion.h major.minor.micro is 1.3.13
Pango is version 1, with the libraries indicating "0.24".


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