Hrmmmm...the solution to this problem keeps eluding me. I always seem to run into the same error. **: Cannot open font file for font Bitstream Vera Sans 10 Does anybody have any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Blair > > From: <byakimovich@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 2005/03/11 Fri AM 10:57:46 EST > To: <fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Gtk+/Fontconfig/Pango.....Config error? > > Hi (somebody? anybody?), > > I've been working on a gtk+/glade/python based app for some time, and I seem to > have run into a bit of a quagmire with regards to running a source-built > gtk+2.4.0. My goal is to package gtk+/pango/glade/Python and all dependent > libraries with my app, so that it can run on any machine, regardless of whether > the proper dependencies are available on that machine. The key player in all > these libraries is gtk+2.4.0, so all my dependencies are based on that > version. > > Here's the situation: > > When I run my app ( which includes the gtk+ and dependent libs ), I get this > error. > > > No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig > library is not correctly configured. You may need to > edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information > about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual > page and on http://fontconfig.org > > > I look throughout the web, and found that many people experienced this error, > but found no definitive answer on how to fix it. After some fiddling around, I > added the following to my startup script: > > export FONTCONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/my_app/etc/fonts > > and the error did not occur anymore. However, I ran into this wall next. > > > **: Cannot open font file for font Bitstream Vera Sans 10 ( and then there's a > Segmentation fault ). > > > If I move the Bitstream line in fonts.conf ( around ln 318 ), I get the error > on the next font in the list ( in this case, Verdana ). > <alias> > <family>sans-serif</family> > <prefer> > <family>Bitstream Vera Sans</family> > <family>Verdana</family> > ... > > A good deal of my fonts are in here: > /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir > > ...so I copied them into my app here -> "myapp/share/fonts/truetype". This is > directories at the top of my "myapp/etc/fonts/(local.conf/fonts.conf) ( I've > tried both...) > > <dir>/usr/lib/myapp/share/fonts</dir> > <dir>/usr/lib/myapp/share/fonts/truetype</dir> > <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> > <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir> > <dir>/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/truetype</dir> > <dir>/usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts</dir> > <dir>~/.fonts</dir> > > I've even tried adding /usr/lib/myapp/share/fonts/truetype to FONTCONFIG_PATH > with no help there. > > I've tweaked things around for a few days with no progress. There have been > numerous other postings for this on the web, but again, I didn't come across > any fixes. From what I read, it looks like a Pango issue, having to do with > Xft and Fontconfig. I tried the USE_XFT=0 fix and there was no change. > > Any ideas? Would a later version of Pango have fixed this? I tried using > Fontconfig 2.3.0, and I get the same error. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks! > - Blair > > > Here's what I'm building ( in approx order of building ): > > I built all these using --prefix=/home/me/my_app on a debian based machine > using XFree86 4.2.1 with some 4.3 upgrades. > > pkgconfig-0.15.0 > glib-2.4.0 > atk-1.2.4 > expat-1.95.7 > zlib-1.2.2 > freetype-2.1.7 > fontconfig-2.2.2 > render-0.8 > xrender-0.8.2 > xft-2.1.2 > pango-1.4.0 > Python-2.3 > jpeg-6b > tiff-v3.6.1 > libpng-1.2.7 > gtk+-2.4.0 > libxml2-2.6.11 > libglade-2.3.6 > pygtk-2.0.0 > > Ok, so this all builds fine. I took extra care to ensure that the > freetype/fontconfig/xft2 versions were the packaged versions, and not the ones > used in XFree86 ( my XFree86 had fontconfig headers, but no libraries, etc. ) > Any ideas? > > _______________________________________________ > fontconfig mailing list > fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig >
