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Re: Font Problem

To: sdaniels@xxxxxxxxxx (Scott Daniels)
Subject: Re: Font Problem
From: jlim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jonathan Lim)
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:25:52 -0800 (PST)
Cc: info-inventor-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0103081831560.16232-100000@shell.cs.fsu.edu> from "Scott Daniels" at Mar 08, 2001 06:43:57 PM
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I will be checking in the FreeType interface in the next couple of days, so if
anyone wants to look into testing it and fixing any potential problems, please
do so at that time. Thanks.

              Jonathan Lim  _  Silicon Graphics  _  Mountain View
              GPS Graphics     Computer Systems        CA, USA


On Thu Mar  8 15:43:57 2001, sdaniels@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
>       I have just downloaded open inventor 2.1.5-6. I am running
> openmotif 2.1.30, g++ 2.95.2, glibc 2.2.2, redhat 6.2.  I have been able
> to get open inventor to compile but when it runs,ie ivview for example,
> all the menu fonts are boxes. When I click on the open file I get boxes
> everywhere but in where you can enter text. I was wondering if you knew
> what I missed to cause this. Whether it is open inventor or something else
> I have done I am not sure.  I did run the linkType1.sh and moved libFL.a
> into the /usr/lib directory. I have the Utopia fonts and everything.  Is
> there a specific font it is trying to lookup or it is something in my
> preferences I need to change.  I tried to figure out with strace but could
> not get a definitive handle in my mind what was going on.  Is it something
> I screwed up and if so how can I fix it, or is there something I need to
> download and compile against to get it to work. Hope you can help.
>                                       Scott

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