I recently upgraded from a modified Redhat 6.2 to Redhat 7.2. I'm now having some strange font problems. Certain sizes of some fonts in certain applications do not appear as letters: instead, I see rectangular blocks with dotted outlines. Interestingly, I see one rectangular block for every *two* characters that should be displayed, suggesting that the problem somehow involves two-byte fonts. There's a screenshot of the problem at http://www.mit.edu/~goodmanj/fontbug.jpg I've noticed the problem with Gnumeric, Real Player 8, xmms, and maybe some others which I've forgotten. In some cases, I can solve the problem by configuring the program to use a different font, but not all programs are that configurable. Interestingly, in Gnumeric, text typed into a currently-selected cell is visible, but text in unselected boxes shows up as rectangles. I have the following font-related packages installed: VFlib2-2.25.1-20 tetex-afm-1.0.7-30 XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-3 ghostscript-fonts-5.50-3 ttfonts-1.0-4 urw-fonts-2.0-12 freetype-2.0.3-7 chkfontpath-1.9.5-2 tetex-fonts-1.0.7-30 XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-3 XFree86-4.1.0-3 XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-3 XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-3 XFree86-xfs-4.1.0-15 ttfonts-ja-1.0-6 fnlib-0.5-9 My XF86Config file has the following font entries: FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" (Shouldn't there be a reference to a Unix port run by Xfs here somewhere?) Playing with Gnumeric's Format Cell/Font selector, if I select "Helvetica Normal", I get rectangles for font sizes 6-10,13,15,18, and 25. I have no problems with font sizes 4,5,11,12,14,16,17,19-24,and 26 and up. I get similar behavior for many, but not all, other fonts in the Gnumeric font selector. More detail on request. -- Jason Goodman, Research Associate, Dept. of Geophysics, Univ. of Chicago goodmanj@uchicago.edu goodmanj@mit.edu http://www.mit.edu/~goodmanj/
