Re: TrueTypes suddenly aren't displayed but still shown in xlsfonts
I had a similar problem. It turned out that not all of my FontPath
statements in XF86Config were valid. I don't know why one of them
suddenly became invalid, but deleting the offending line fixed things
for me.
--Tom Joseph
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 14:37, Christian Hammers wrote:
> Hello
>
> xlsfonts and several other apps show correctly my msttfcorefonts font:
> -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> Sadly no app can actually use it. gtkfontsel e.g. says "The selected font
> is not available". xlsfont and some apps say: "Warning: Missing charsets
> in String to FontSet conversation" and "Warning: Unable to load any
> usable fontset".
>
> How to get my ttf back?
>
> I tried to completely reinstall all X11 and font packages and even upgraded
> from sid to the 4.2beta debs without any changes.
> I have of course loaded the "freetype" and no "xtt" module. I'm using the
> nvidia display driver for my Geforce2 if that matters. Already upgraded
> this thing, too. But it worked long time before.
>
> The failure started at about 1 week ago after I restarted my computers
> after week or so uptime and several apt-get -u upgrades...
>
> A hint could be that I find nothing about freetype in xdpyinfo although it
> loads fine according to /var/log/XFree86.0.log. For which string should I
> look in xdpyinfo?
>
> bye,
>
> -christian-
>
>
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