Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:11:01 -0500

Hi Ivan,

On 2012-09-05 Ivan Kohler wrote:
> I seem to be having a fonts problem running medm under Ubuntu 1204
> I did the usual cat of medmfonts.ali >>
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.alias the found that all fonts
> larger than 22 points were missing when I ran medm.  Any thoughts?

That means Ubuntu 12.04 must have removed those fonts from their default 
distribution.

> Could this be an open source license issue for these fonts?

I very much doubt it, since they have been used and distributed for years with 
no problems, and I other distros do still include them.

Ubuntu probably has the fonts still available somewhere, you just have to find 
what package they're in and install it.  If you find the answer please let us 
know. On RHEL 6.2 the Sony fonts are in xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-9.1.el6.noarch 
and the Adobe fonts are in xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.2-9.1.el6.noarch 
so I'm guessing they're an optional part of X11 v7.2 which Ubuntu no longer 
installs by default.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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