Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Bernhard: I agree with most/all of your points, and I appreciate your help in clarifying the issues (especially with the good point that these are server-side fonts so the suggests/recommends are the X server package responsibility). Best wishes, Alan __ Alan W. Irwin

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-26 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Alan W. Irwin [110125 22:28]: > Before doing that you might want to consider suggesting or recommending > xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi for the gv package. The xserver-xorg-core package is already doing this. Adding it to GV also does not really help, as those fonts are not needed on the compute

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-01-25 21:40+0100 Bernhard R. Link wrote: package gv close 611053 thanks * Alan W. Irwin [110125 20:15]: To recap, in my original message I said Google searches for these types of warning messages turned up rather old advice to install xfonts-100dpi and gsfonts-x11. I have done that

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
package gv close 611053 thanks * Alan W. Irwin [110125 20:15]: > To recap, in my original message I said > > > Google searches for these types of warning messages turned up rather > old advice to install xfonts-100dpi and gsfonts-x11. I have > done that, but the warning messages persist. > > >

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-01-25 18:41+0100 Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Alan W. Irwin [110125 18:21]: irwin@raven> xlsfonts |wc -l 1600 956 of those are misc fonts. However, the last time I tried xlsfonts years ago, I am pretty sure there was much more than 1600 fonts there. Also, there is nothing in the output

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Alan W. Irwin [110125 18:21]: > irwin@raven> xlsfonts |wc -l > 1600 > > 956 of those are misc fonts. However, the last time I tried xlsfonts > years ago, I am pretty sure there was much more than 1600 fonts there. > Also, there is nothing in the output from xlsfonts related to > Helvetica; >

Bug#611053: Helvetica missing from xlsfonts

2011-01-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Bernhard: Thanks for that key question about xslfonts. xslfonts is populated; irwin@raven> xlsfonts |wc -l 1600 956 of those are misc fonts. However, the last time I tried xlsfonts years ago, I am pretty sure there was much more than 1600 fonts there. Also, there is nothing in the outpu