khaled@sunb2.cs.uiuc.edu (07/25/90)
When using x functions from another machine, some work, but some don't, and it seems that the remote machine is looking for a certain font on my host machine, and does not find any. I don't know how it doesn't find ANY, since some DO work. More specifically, suppose I want to use "xfig" from another machine, the following is a trace of what happens on the other machine : sunb2-10>xfig Initializing FIG v2.0 Protocol v1.4X (X11 patchlevel 5) ... Error: Unable to load any useable ISO8859-1 font sunb2-11> I should note that on another host machines these programs do work, so it is not a matter of these programs being bad. So is it the case that the program is looking for a specific font, or font family or something, and not finding it?? If that is the case, how can I check the fonts that ARE available, the fonts that the program is looking for, and how can I add to my existing set of fonts the fonts the program is looking for?? I appreciate the help, Thanks, -Khaled
ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan) (07/25/90)
In article <42100005@sunb2>, khaled@sunb2.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
Khaled> sunb2-10>xfig Initializing FIG v2.0 Protocol v1.4X (X11
Khaled> patchlevel 5) ... Error: Unable to load any useable ISO8859-1
Khaled> font sunb2-11>
Add the following to your .Xdefaults file:
XtDefaultFont: <some good font name for your system>
The error message indicates that you are using an older version of X
and/or do not have a fonts.alias file for translating the ISO names.
Try xlsfonts and see if anything with ISO8859-1 in the last part of
the name is output.
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