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From: Jim Pflugrath jim {- dot -} pflugrath {- at -} RIGAKU {- dot -} COM
Date: 2007-11-08

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Subject: Re: Ugly fonts in CCP4i/Mosflm on Mandriva Linux 2008
From: Ethan A Merritt merritt {- at -} U {- dot -} WASHINGTON {- dot -} EDU
Date: 2007-11-08

On Wednesday 07 November 2007 23:16, CCP4ibb for Neutze Gp. wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> On upgrading our machines to Mandriva Linux 2008 I see
> extremely ugly fonts in CCP4i and Mosflm.

Yeah. We ran into this also. But it is easy to fix.
You need to install the full set of x11 fonts:
urpmi xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts
urpmi xorg-x11-100dpi-fonts
These are meta-packages that will pull in a large number
of additional fonts. In fact I installed several other
font packages as well, to match the previous OS version,
but I am pretty sure these are the relevant ones.

Note that Mandriva 2008 has switched the font management
system. I do not fully understand the new system, but in
this particular case it was sufficient to simply install
the rpms.

> It is almost
> impossible to read the job list in CCP4i (see attached
> screen shot). And Mosflm actually crashes with the error:
> ** xdl_view error in routine xdl_open_view **
> ** Unable to load *adobe-courier-medium-r*--8* font **
>
> Other ActiveTcl dependent programs are also affected. This
> was never a problem before, only happens with Mandriva
> 2008. Even Ubuntu 7.10 works fine (no clever comments
> thanks about switching to an alternative OS, Mandriva 2008
> is other wise outstanding).
>
> As an example, we are running:
> Dell Precision 390, Duo core 6700, nVidia Quadro FX 3450
> with correctly configured drivers from nVidia.
>
> Has anyone else seen this, or resolved it? Is an
> alternative ActiveTcl version required, and how do I
> implement this? Any advice would be appreciated, thanks.
>
> Best wishes, Rob
> _________________________________________________
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>
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