Marvellous! Thanks to Marc Swartz and Peter Dalgaard the "font problems in X11 with linux R" was solved. I added /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi to /etc/X11/fs/config but nothing happened until I in addition installed 100dpi fonts from the SUSE dvd and then alas - no more font problems with 'pairs', 'scatterplot.matrix' etc but still the window with message: "Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-*-*-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-iso8859-1"to type FontsStruct" comes up with help.start() on Netscape.
However, I think this is a little unfair of SuSE..... Well, thanks again a lot Fredrik m�ndagen den 31 mars 2003 16.06 skrev Peter Dalgaard BSA: > "Marc Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >surfaced. When I > > > > > >use pairs in John Fox's car library e.g.: > > >> pairs(cbind(prestige, income, education, women)) > > > > > >Error in text.default(x, y, txt, cex = cex, font = font) : > > > X11 font at size 16 could not be loaded > > >In addition: Warning message: > > >freeing previous text buffer in GText > > > > > > > > >Evidently there is some problem with my fonts or their loading in > > > > X11. > > > > >However, I can add text to a plot up to size 24 but not larger - > > > > > >"Warning message: > > >X11 used font size 24 when 30 was requested" > > > > > >In addition - when i use help.start() within R and choses > > > "Search Engine & Keywords" a window pops up with the > > >following text in the windowbar: "Netscape:subprocess > > >diagnostics(stdout/stderr)" and the > > >following message: "Warning: Cannot convert string > > >"-*-helvetica-*-*-*-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-iso8859-1"to type FontsStruct" but > > > > > >otherwise help.start with Netscape works OK. > > > > > >No other problems with fonts have surfaced - for example I can > > >use font size > > >16 in StarOffice 6.0 and Xemacs 21.4 without problems. I > > >realize that this is > > >more a Linux or X11 than a R question but actually I don't > > >know where to > > >turn. > > >I use SuSE linux 8.1, R 1.62, and Netscape 4.8. > > >How do I fix this problem? > > > > > >Sincerely Fredrik Lundgren > > > > It sounds like you might not have scaled versions of your fonts loaded > > in /etc/X11/fs/config > > > > Take a look in there for the following lines, depending upon whether > > you have 75 or 100 dpi fonts loaded: > > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled > > > > See if there are also the following lines: > > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi > > > > If one of the second set of lines are not present to correspond with > > one of the first two lines, it is likely that scaled versions of your > > fonts are not being loaded by the font server. > > I think that on SuSE you want *both* the 75dpi and 100dpi fontsets > installed. The internal code assumes that either you have the full set > of unscaled fonts or have scalable fonts (this is arguably a bug, but > I'm not sure I dare touch that particular piece of code at this > point), and SuSE gives you only one of the unscaled ones bye default. ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
