Hi, > try installing the xfonts-75dpi package as well. Some > packages look for 75dpi fonts too....maybe that's > what's causing the problem....in either case both
thanks for the suggestion. will check it out. below are the error messages that i get if i try to run xpdf and similar stuff. hope that give a better idea of the problem. xpdf version 0.90 (decryption) Copyright ? 1996-1999 Derek B. Noonburg LTK Error: Unknown font '-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' Error: Failed to open font: '-*-courier-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' Error: Failed to open font: '-*-times-medium-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' Error: Failed to open font: '-*-times-medium-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' Error: Failed to open font: '-*-times-medium-r-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' Error: Failed to open font: '-*-times-medium-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' Error: Failed to open font: '-*-times-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' Error: Failed to open font: '-*-times-medium-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' regards harsha