| Title: | DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90 |
| Notice: | See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit |
| Moderator: | STAR::VATNE |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Dec 31 1990 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3726 |
| Total number of notes: | 19516 |
When I run VAX DEBUG (and also a local application) I get the error message: X Toolkit Warning: Cannot convert string "-ADOBE-COURIER-MEDIUM-R-NORMAL--14-140 -75-75-M-90-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct Does this mean that a font which used to be available in DW2 is no longer available? I'd appreciate any ideas about how I might fix this (DEBUG falls back to a default (tiny) font and my eyes are not as young as they used to be....)
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 3616.1 | Font should be there | STAR::VATNE | Peter Vatne, VMS Development | Fri Nov 09 1990 10:58 | 14 |
The font mentioned in the warning message should be there. We haven't deleted any fonts from DECwindows V3! Check for the file SYS$COMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.75DPI]COURIER14.DECW$FONT;1 Also, check to see if SYS$COMMON:[SYSFONT.DECW.75DPI]DECW$FONT_DIRECTORY.DAT contains the line: COURIER14.DECW$FONT;1 -Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--14-140-75-75-M-90-ISO8859-1 Do you have 75 dpi fonts tailored off? If so, you've probably discovered a bug in VAX DEBUG. It should wildcard the X and Y resolution fields so that it picks up the 100 dpi Courier fonts if that's all that's available. Please QAR it if that's the case. | |||||
| 3616.2 | no 75 dpi fonts on 100 dpi machines | STAR::BMATTHEWS | Fri Nov 09 1990 13:25 | 9 | |
By default in V3 if you are running on a 100dpi monitor you will only have 100 dpi fonts in your fonts list. This is done to save memory in the X11 server and because no apps should be looking for a specific dpi font especially when it doesn't match the dpi of the screen and all apps should fall back when they don't find the desired font. You can use the decw$private_server_setup.template file in sys$manager to create a decw$private_server_setup.com file to change the font list to include 75 dpi fonts. Bill | |||||