** Description changed:
+ [solution found] The below happens only when updating from previous
+ Ubuntu versions keeping your xorg.conf unchanged. After updating to
+ Edgy, my xorg.conf's "Files" section carried FontPath's to
+ /usr/share/X11/fonts/... whereas on Edgy fonts are in /usr/share/fonts
+ (thus in /usr/share/fonts/X11/...). Correcting xorg.conf solved the
+ problem! Still -- somehow for those updating from Dapper to Edgy it is
+ not obvious that xorg.conf must be changed!
+
I am developing some R (r-cran in ubuntu) language package using Magick++
interface. Since updating to Edgy I could not use any of display functions of
MagickCore, Magick++, MagickWand because all of them fail on the same error
throwing me out of the program: display
display: unable to load font
`-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'.
The above message was generated on the command line using shell display, but
it is exactly the same in all API's (well, Magick++ and MagickWand use
DisplayImages of MagickCore directly). In the shell one can override the
settings by using 'display -font fixed *', which works. In the API's setting
image.font("fixed") or similar does not affect the result at all. I tried
different versions, repositories, of libmagick (plus all other files) --
dapper, dapper-security, edgy but all on Edgy Ubuntu -- all fail with the same
error, but all of them are 6.2.4.5 versions. Similar problem was reported on
debian stable 6.0.6. I ended up killing the precompiled binaries and installing
ImageMagick6.2.9 from source from their original site -- this solved the
problem. Thus it does not look like and inherent Edgy problem, but rather the
way the package was compiled (dependencies?). In any case, installation from
source works w/o any issues.
Well, if you forget about my particular problem and think of server
applications, ImageMagick is a must, so I would consider this problem as
very high priority!
+
Note: the original reporter indicated the bug was in package
'libmagick'; however, that package was not published in Ubuntu.
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[edgy, libmagick] any display command (shell w/o additional arguments,
magickcore, magick++ etc) fails because of missing fonts making especially
c/c++ API's useless as one cannot change settings there
https://launchpad.net/bugs/60155
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