Re: Helvetica fonts seem to be missing in Debian 3/Netscape
Dean Allen Provins, 2002-Aug-30 09:32 -0600:
> Hello:
>
> Since I upgraded to Debian 3, I have noticed that when firing up
> netscape on some pages, I occasionally get lines indicating that
> Helvetica fonts can't be added to fontstruct - or something similar.
>
> Even the old Star Office 5.2 gives similar messages, and text in a
> presentation that looked great prior to the upgrade, now looks rather
> poor.
>
> Have such fonts been removed, or (more likely), have I failed to add
> some required package. I looked through the available packages for
> something referring to Helvetica (and/or Adobe, thinking that they might
> have supplied them), but came up without a solution.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
The Helvetica fonts are in the xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi
packages. If those are actually installed on your system, your X
system may not have access to them. If you are using a font server
(xfs), your X system may not be using it. Check in
/etc/X11/XF86Config(-4) for font references.
jc
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Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
Diggin' Debian Admin and User
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