On Tue Nov 9 18:02:49 2004, monty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> For recent versions of inventor under linux (both debian and red hat
> enterprise) and I think mac OSX (but I can't check that easily right
> now) I'm finding that all text (SoText2 and SoText3) is
> invisible. There are no complaints about missing fonts or failures; I
> just don't see anything. This is true many of the Mentor examples, in
> ivview, and in my own programs.
>
> I suspect I am missing something obvious, but I didn't see anything in
> the bug tracking system or the mailing list archives about this...
>
> The machine I'm testing on now is running the rpms of
> sgi-OpenInventor-{clients,data,devel}-2.1.5-10
>
> I believe I am seeing the same issue with debian's packages of
> 2.1.5-10-3.
Refer to the note in the README.FIRST file about using the default font library
versus the FreeType interface. If you're using the latter, try setting the
environment variable FL_DEBUG to 1 before running the program.
I'm using freetype-2.1.3-6 on Red Hat Linux 9 and it works fine.
Jonathan
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