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Re: TECH: Fonts (was Re: Various)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, October 11, 1999, 21:13
Stupid newbie X font question (I'm a command-line Unix guru, but X is
new to me):

I have RedHat 6.0 and I'm running XFree86 with an xfs font server.
I'm trying to run an application that has hard-coded font names,
and it's complaining because those fonts can't be found.  Here's what
I get:

Substituting font -*-times-medium-r-normal--48-*-*-*-*-*-*-* for font
-*-times-bold-r-normal--48-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Error: could not load substitute font: -*-times-medium-r-normal--48-*-*-*-*-*-*-*.

Substituting font -*-times-medium-r-normal--9-*-*-*-*-*-*-* for font
-*-palatino-medium-r-normal--9-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Error: could not load substitute font: -*-times-medium-r-normal--9-*-*-*-*-*-*-*.

I have a font named "times", but neither 9-point nor 48-point.
What do I do to make them exist?  Do I need to download fonts
from somewhere, or configure xfs, or what?

Thanks for any help.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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