Fonts on Linux

[Angelos Christodoulou]

Any ideas on fonts?

 

Trying to look at changing our Linux version from Gentoo to Ubuntu and we get the scenario below. We get the same results when trying to run on a Virtual Gentoo setup   

 

Wrote the most basic display of fonts that I could & it would seem that it does not “listen to the setting for a font change to Helvetica”

 

 

The snapshot below on LHS is the source code, RHS one is what the screen looks like when the app runs

Although we are telling the app to change to Helvetica pointsize 24 it looks as if it remains in the original font setting – albeit that in the info-box it thinks it is displaying the Helvetica font.

 

 

 

[Paul]

Most probably, you have not installed scalable (.ttf) fonts. Check by "xlsfonts | grep -i courier" and "xlsfonts | grep -i helvetica". For bold font type, you need installed such a type too (in addition to "medium" type), you should see it with the above "xlsfonts". If the specified font is not available, the default (or "Helvetica") font is used, see the FlagShip manual (section OBJ.Font) for details. You may download ttf fonts for Linux e.g. from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

Paul

[Angelos Christodoulou]

Hi Paul

 

Thanks for the response!

 

Using kfontviewer & I called Helvetica Bold 35 – Got the screen shot below

It looks as my basic application “can’t find” the fonts – Do I need to define a path where the fonts are installed?

Or is the location for the fonts listed below incorrect?

 

 

 

 

 

Angelos Christodoulou

Web: www.accpick.co.za

 

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[Paul]

If you install fonts manually, you need to execute

  cd /directory_with_your_ttf_fonts      ## e.g.: cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts
  sudo mkfontscale && mkfontdir && xset +fp `pwd`

Further details are in FlagShip on-line manual section REL.8 and in Linux manual "man xset". Then update the cache by "sudo fc-cache -fv". You also may need to check "xlsfonts" as advised in my previous posting.

Paul