Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > Hi all, > > My PhD dissertation is due in a few weeks and I'm having some kind of > problem with fonts that's preventing me from viewing my thesis. > > This is a new computer (my old one died at the *worst* possible moment. > Luckily, I'm *really* good about backing everything up), so it's a fresh > Debian/testing installation and I'm trying to iron out bugs as quickly as > possible so I can get back to writing. > > I normally view my thesis using gv, but gv segfaults: > > $ gv dissertation.ps > Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion > Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > xdvi also fails to run: > > $ xdvi dissertation.dvi > X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range > for operation) > Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont) > Value in failed request: 0xe00004 > Serial number of failed request: 27 > Current serial number in output stream: 28 > > > xfontsel also seems to have a problem: > > FreeType: couldn't open face > /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/ds=y:VeraMono.ttf: 1 > > > On the console behind X, this error message is printed: > > FreeType: couldn't open face > /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/ds=y:VeraMono.ttf: 1 > The crash seems to be from a missing font/fonts. Have you installed x-ttcidfont-conf? -- Eric Gaumer Debian GNU/Linux PPC egaumer@pagecache.org http://egaumer.pagecache.org PGP/GPG Key 0xF15D41E9
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