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Package: defoma
Version: 0.11.8
Severity: normal
Hi,
I'm not sure what package to file this bug against; 'defoma' is a shot in
the dark.
The problem is that in some X applications, e.g. 'gv' or 'amaya', some text
elements are not being displayed - for example, the menus. All the menu
items are there and they are selectable, but the letters are invisible.
Unfortunately, I know of no way to find out what X font an application is
requesting from the server, so more guesswork was involved. After a while,
however, I found that -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-* contains only
'empty characters'. If I select this font in e.g. xftontsel, the sample text
disappears. The strange thing is that the only foundry that has this font is
adobe, and when I select -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*, the
display is correct.
It seems to be the ptSz value that does the voodoo: as long as I don't touch
it, the letters are there. I made this little table about which value works
and which doesn't:
-*- OK
-80- bad
-90- OK
-100- bad
-120- bad
-140- bad
-180- bad
-240- bad
I have the following packages installed that may be related to the problem:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
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ii dafont-basic-fixedwidth 1.00-1 Dafont Basic Fixed Width fonts package.
ii defoma 0.11.8 Debian Font Manager -- automatic font configuration framework
ii dfontmgr 0.11.7 GUI frontend for Defoma, DEbian FOnt MAnager
ii dvi2ps-fontdata-bsr 1.0.1-0.1 tfm files for bluesky research fonts
ii dynafont 1.0-15 Module for konwert package which loads UTF-8 fonts dynamically
ii figfonts 2.2.1-1 User contributed fonts for figlet
ii fontconfig 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library
ii freefont 0.10-11 Freeware font selection for X11
ii gsfonts 8.14-3 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s)
ii gsfonts-other 6.0-3 Additional fonts for the ghostscript interpreter
ii gsfonts-x11 0.17 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11
ii gtkfontsel 1.1-6 A gtk+ based font selection utility
ii latex-xft-fonts 0.1-3 Xft-compatible versions of some LaTeX fonts
ii libfont-afm-perl 1.18-1 Interface to Adobe Font Metrics files for Perl
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library (shared library)
ii mplayer-fonts 3.5-2 Fonts for mplayer
ii msttcorefonts 1.1.4 Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
ii psfontmgr 0.11.8 PostScript font manager -- part of Defoma, Debian Font Manager
ii sharefont 0.10-12 Shareware font selection for X11
ii ttf-freefont 20030519-1 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts
ii ult1mo-fonts 1.0-10 some Type1 fonts in ISO-8859-2 encoding
ii unifont 1.0-1 X11 dual-width GNU unicode font
ii x-ttcidfont-conf 14 Configure TrueType and CID fonts for X
ii xfonts-100dpi 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-100dpi-transcoded 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 100 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10646-1)
ii xfonts-75dpi 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 75 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi-transcoded 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 75 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10646-1)
ii xfonts-artwiz 2.5 X fonts created by Artwiz, TigerT, and Daniel Erat
ii xfonts-base 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-base-transcoded 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 standard fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10646-1)
ii xfonts-biznet-100dpi 3.0.0-15 100 dpi BIZNET ISO-8859-2 fonts for X servers
ii xfonts-biznet-75dpi 3.0.0-15 75 dpi BIZNET ISO-8859-2 fonts for X servers
ii xfonts-biznet-base 3.0.0-15 Standard BIZNET ISO-8859-2 fonts for X servers
ii xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2-100dpi 3.0.0-15 100 dpi BIZNET ISO-8859-2 fonts for X servers - meta package
ii xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2-75dpi 3.0.0-15 75 dpi BIZNET ISO-8859-2 fonts for X servers - meta package
ii xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2-base 3.0.0-15 Standard BIZNET ISO-8859-2 fonts for X servers - meta package
ii xfonts-dosemu 1.2.1-1 VGA font for the DOS Emulator
ii xfonts-efont-unicode 0.4.0-4 /efont/ Unicode fonts for X which cover various scripts
ii xfonts-efont-unicode-ib 0.4.0-4 /efont/ Unicode fonts for X (italic and bold)
ii xfonts-intl-european 1.2.1-2 International fonts for X -- European
ii xfonts-jmk 3.0-4 James M. Knoble's character-cell fonts for X
ii xfonts-konsole 3.2.2-1 Fonts used by the KDE Konsole
ii xfonts-nexus 0.0.2-7 Nexus font for X
ii xfonts-pex 4.1.0-17 fonts for minimal PEX support in X
ii xfonts-scalable 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-scalable-nonfree 4.2.0-2 non-free Type1 and TrueType fonts from XFree86
ii xfonts-terminus 4.06-1 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii xfonts-terminus-dos 4.06-1 Fixed-width fonts for DOS encodings
ii xfonts-terminus-oblique 4.06-1 Oblique version of the Terminus font
I tried to remove most of them to see if anything happened, but there was no
effect (other than that most of the other text on my desktop was replaced by
little squares after a while). What was most strange was that I couldn't get
rid of the Helvetica font. It kept showing up in xfontsel even after I
removed xfonts-{100,75}dpi* which seemed to be the packages that supplied
it (naturally, I did restart the font server and even the X server each
time).
I am at a loss as to what else to try.
Andras
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.1-ak2-chardonnay
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU
Versions of packages defoma depends on:
ii dialog 0.9b-20040316-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii file 4.07-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii perl 5.8.3-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii whiptail 0.51.4-23 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
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Andrew Korn (Korn Andras) <korn at chardonnay.math.bme.hu>
Does steel wool come from metal sheep?
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