| Title: | "ASK THE WIZARDS" |
| Moderator: | QUARK::LIONEL |
| Created: | Mon Oct 30 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Mon May 12 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1857 |
| Total number of notes: | 3728 |
Return-Path: "VMS001::WWW"@vms001.das-x.dec.com Received: by vmsmkt.zko.dec.com (UCX V4.1-12, OpenVMS V6.2 VAX); Fri, 9 May 1997 18:36:50 -0400 Received: from vms001 by mail11.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.5/1.0/WV) id SAA12631; Fri, 9 May 1997 18:33:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 17:38:26 -0400 Message-Id: <[email protected]> From: "VMS001::WWW"@vms001.das-x.dec.com (09-May-1997 1738) To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Ask the Wizard: '[email protected]' X-VMS-To: [email protected] Remote Host: (null) Browser Type: Mozilla/4.0b3 [en] (WinNT; I) Remote Info: <null> Name: Keith L Morris Email Address: [email protected] CPU Architecture: VAX and Alpha Version: V 6.2 Questions: When using DECWindows Motif 1.2 for OPENVMS on a VAXstation 4000/60. I am having a problem that I believer may pertain to fonts. If I telnet to a DEC-UNIX box and run a Motif/XWindows application, most of the time all runs fine. One application, called Software Through Pictures, mostly works but crashes anytime a dialog box is attempted. The console shows several font errors: Error:: could not open font xxxxxxxxx where the actual fonts are not shown if the xlsfonts command is used. But it shows this error whether or not the application crashes. My problem is that the DEC support people say it's the software's problem. Naturally the software people say it's the operating system. What to do? I don't really care either way. I just want it to work. My other option is to dump the VAXstation and use Windows NT on a 486/66 running a kludgy X-emulation that is also very slow. It will work okay with the software in question. What to do? thank.....klm
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| 1853.1 | One needs to choose (or default to) an available font | XDELTA::HOFFMAN | Steve, OpenVMS Engineering | Mon May 12 1997 16:23 | 20 |
Contact the Software Through Pictures folks and inquire which fonts are required by the application, if there is any way to select or override the fonts the application uses, and how to configure font fallbacks. (Various UNIX applications can use environment variables to select fonts -- one should obviously override the default font selection with a font known to OpenVMS DECwindows.) Additional fonts can be added to sys$common:[sysfont.decw.user_75dpi] (assuming 75 DPI), and @sys$update:decw$mkfontdir must then be run. This will update the font directory contents... If you cannot get a copy of the fonts needed as an add-on or as a BDF-format and cannot find a way to influence the selection of fonts in the Software Through Pictures package, then you will be left to construct a font alias file. (Font alias file creation and the file DECW$FONT_ALIAS*.DAT are/were covered in the back of the DECwindows Motif User's Guide.) To see fonts known to OpenVMS, use the decw$utils:xlsfonts tool. | |||||