ImageMagick (display) unable to load font
Trying to run the 'display' command from ImageMagick without an argument
gives the following "error" (the app does not open at all):
curty@einstein:~$ display
display.im6: unable to load font
`-microsoft-verdana-*-r-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*': Resource temporarily
unavailable @ error/xwindow.c/XBestFont/834.
This since I upgraded from Squeeze lts to Wheezy the other day. I had
the same problem in 2011 on a fresh install of Squeeze, which inspired
me to install the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package initially (and that
made the problem go away). This option is no longer available however
as I already have the microsoft fonts installed (not that I really want
them for anything but a workaround).
I don't how to solve this problem. Why an open source program would ask
for a proprietary font in order to work is beyond my comprehension.
--
Hypertext--or should I say the ideology of hypertext?--is ultrademocratic and
so entirely in harmony with the demagogic appeals to cultural democracy that
accompany (and distract one’s attention from) the ever-tightening grip of
plutocratic capitalism. - Susan Sontag
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