[SLE] xfontsel dropdown list drops off screen
After installing a large collection of TrueType fonts, I'm now encountering the problem that the xfontsel dropdown list for the font families is too long to fit on the screen. The bottom part of it is invisible. Because the only way to view the list is to hold down the left mouse button while moving down it, the mouse isn't available for any other adjustments such as moving the entire list upwards. Any ideas on how I can view the entire list? Paul Abrahams -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Can't help with xfontsel. I have only a small collection of tt fonts and it does the same to me. There's an alpha GPL fontviewer, gfontview, at www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/1458/ I wasn't able to use the rpm, but I did compile the source and it works OK for viewing fonts. On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
After installing a large collection of TrueType fonts, I'm now encountering the problem that the xfontsel dropdown list for the font families is too long to fit on the screen. The bottom part of it is invisible. Because the only way to view the list is to hold down the left mouse button while moving down it, the mouse isn't available for any other adjustments such as moving the entire list upwards.
Any ideas on how I can view the entire list?
Paul Abrahams
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Did u install t1lib before installing gfontview? Did you manage to set up t1lib? I had a bit of trouble doin this. On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Kenneth Kellum wrote:
Can't help with xfontsel. I have only a small collection of tt fonts and it does the same to me.
There's an alpha GPL fontviewer, gfontview, at www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/1458/ I wasn't able to use the rpm, but I did compile the source and it works OK for viewing fonts.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
After installing a large collection of TrueType fonts, I'm now encountering the problem that the xfontsel dropdown list for the font families is too long to fit on the screen. The bottom part of it is invisible. Because the only way to view the list is to hold down the left mouse button while moving down it, the mouse isn't available for any other adjustments such as moving the entire list upwards.
Any ideas on how I can view the entire list?
Paul Abrahams
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I meant to copy my reply to the list, so Nourai will get this twice. On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, you wrote:
Did u install t1lib before installing gfontview? Did you manage to set up t1lib?
Yes. I got the rpm for t1lib from rpmfind and it installed with no problem. Another thing. There's a configure option to use the "ungif" library rather than "gif". I used that. "ungif" is on the SuSE CD in gra.
I had a bit of trouble doin this.
So did I, but in the end it worked.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Kenneth Kellum wrote:
Can't help with xfontsel. I have only a small collection of tt fonts and it does the same to me.
There's an alpha GPL fontviewer, gfontview, at www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/1458/ I wasn't able to use the rpm, but I did compile the source and it works OK for viewing fonts.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
After installing a large collection of TrueType fonts, I'm now encountering the problem that the xfontsel dropdown list for the font families is too long to fit on the screen. The bottom part of it is invisible. Because the only way to view the list is to hold down the left mouse button while moving down it, the mouse isn't available for any other adjustments such as moving the entire list upwards.
Any ideas on how I can view the entire list?
Paul Abrahams
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Thankyou. Actually the trouble I was referring to was not with the installing (that went ok) but with setting up the t1lib.config file. But you answered that question implicity I think....that I dont have to bother setting it up to get gsfontview to work. On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Kenneth Kellum wrote:
I meant to copy my reply to the list, so Nourai will get this twice.
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, you wrote:
Did u install t1lib before installing gfontview? Did you manage to set up t1lib?
Yes. I got the rpm for t1lib from rpmfind and it installed with no problem.
Another thing. There's a configure option to use the "ungif" library rather than "gif". I used that. "ungif" is on the SuSE CD in gra.
I had a bit of trouble doin this.
So did I, but in the end it worked.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Kenneth Kellum wrote:
Can't help with xfontsel. I have only a small collection of tt fonts and it does the same to me.
There's an alpha GPL fontviewer, gfontview, at www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/1458/ I wasn't able to use the rpm, but I did compile the source and it works OK for viewing fonts.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
After installing a large collection of TrueType fonts, I'm now encountering the problem that the xfontsel dropdown list for the font families is too long to fit on the screen. The bottom part of it is invisible. Because the only way to view the list is to hold down the left mouse button while moving down it, the mouse isn't available for any other adjustments such as moving the entire list upwards.
Any ideas on how I can view the entire list?
Paul Abrahams
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Hi everyone. Yep, I agree. No problem but. . . Has anyone managed to get the ttf's printed from a worthwhile application? Luv from Clara x x x
Thankyou. Actually the trouble I was referring to was not with the installing > (that went ok) but with setting up the t1lib.config file. > But you answered that question implicity I think....that I dont have > to bother setting it up to get gsfontview to work.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Kenneth Kellum wrote:
I meant to copy my reply to the list, so Nourai will get this twice.
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, you wrote:
Did u install t1lib before installing gfontview? Did you manage to set up t1lib?
Yes. I got the rpm for t1lib from rpmfind and it installed with no problem.
Another thing. There's a configure option to use the "ungif" library rather than "gif". I used that. "ungif" is on the SuSE CD in gra.
I had a bit of trouble doin this.
So did I, but in the end it worked.
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Kenneth Kellum wrote:
Can't help with xfontsel. I have only a small collection of tt fonts and it does the same to me.
There's an alpha GPL fontviewer, gfontview, at www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Foothills/1458/ I wasn't able to use the rpm, but I did compile the source and it works OK for viewing fonts.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
After installing a large collection of TrueType fonts, I'm now encountering the problem that the xfontsel dropdown list for the font families is too long to fit on the screen. The bottom part of it is invisible. Because the only way to view the list is to hold down the left mouse button while moving down it, the mouse isn't available for any other adjustments such as moving the entire list upwards.
Any ideas on how I can view the entire list?
Paul Abrahams
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Steve Sheriff wrote:
Hi everyone.
Yep, I agree. No problem but. . . Has anyone managed to get the ttf's printed from a worthwhile application?
Luv from Clara x x x
I did, but not directly. StarOffice displays and prints TrueType (Some of them like Tahoma and TimesNewRoman crash SO very heavily while others like ComicSansMS work fine) Though it's not SO printinng, but ghostscript. SO is using these fonts and Ghostscripts uses the definitions while converting to pcl for my printer. If you like, ghostscript is sort of PS Printer with (almost) infinite fonts and SO knows about these due to - *.afm deffinitions in ../xp3/fontmap/afm - *.pfb files (empty in my case `touch xyz.pfb`) in ../xp3/pssoftfonts - a modified (see setup.pdf) SGENPR.PS (forgot the exact name) printer driver in ../ppds that has additional font entries (The font names were the same as gs's Fontmap font names) The other choice is to convert TTF's to either type1 or type42 and use them for printing. (It looks like that I did just that yesterday by accident when I first announced success) In some ways it's totaly mad, I ended up printing Webdings and Verdana quiet happy when it sould have literally been impossible. When everything should have worked (in theory) it didn't. I do not know wether it's sensible to restart X on these occasions. If it is, than might explain it. After X froze, I had to restart and some time after that - BINGO! I still have to get my notes together and post them. I hope that somebody will be able to reproduce my efforts. I had a short look at WordPerfect as well. It looks like "understanding" Type1 Fonts, but nothing happens if you add a few more and restart xwp. There is no Fontmap file for the type1 fonts. Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
A Nourai wrote:
Did u install t1lib before installing gfontview? Did you manage to set up t1lib? I had a bit of trouble doin this.
I couldn't even get started, alas. I picked up gfontview-0.3.2 from metalab.unc.edu, unpacked it, and did a ./configure according to the installation instructions. What I got was: checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${make}... yes checking for working aclocal... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... found checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++O2 ) works... no configure: error installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables Any ideas as to what the problem might be? Thanks -- Paul Abrahams -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
This is pretty much what I did. Run configure untill it worked, which required installing some other packages, but not as many as it appears you'll need. autoconf and automake are on the SuSE CD. I must have installed them for some other reason. aclocal is on my system, but I honestly don't know what it is or where it came from. My guess (and it's only a guess) is that it's part of the Gnome package. Perhaps another reader of the list can enlighten us. I *think* gfontview uses Gnome stuff (hence the "g"). On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
A Nourai wrote:
Did u install t1lib before installing gfontview? Did you manage to set up t1lib? I had a bit of trouble doin this.
I couldn't even get started, alas. I picked up gfontview-0.3.2 from metalab.unc.edu, unpacked it, and did a ./configure according to the installation instructions. What I got was:
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${make}... yes checking for working aclocal... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... found checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++O2 ) works... no configure: error installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables
Any ideas as to what the problem might be?
Thanks --
Paul Abrahams
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Kenneth Kellum wrote:
This is pretty much what I did. Run configure untill it worked, which required installing some other packages, but not as many as it appears you'll need. autoconf and automake are on the SuSE CD. I must have installed them for some other reason.
Hmmm. I did need to install autoconf and autoheader. All the `missing' complaints disappeared, but I still get the complaint that (c++ -O2) doesn't work and that the compiler can't create executables. What's particularly odd is that when I type `c++ -O2' on a command line, it's accepted (though there's of course a complaint that there are no input files). I must say that one of the irksome things about Gnu/Linux sometimes is that you get slammed by these system components you know little or much about, and the error messages assume you're an expert on them. On the other hand, Windows does the same thing.
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
A Nourai wrote:
Did u install t1lib before installing gfontview? Did you manage to set up t1lib? I had a bit of trouble doin this.
I couldn't even get started, alas. I picked up gfontview-0.3.2 from metalab.unc.edu, unpacked it, and did a ./configure according to the installation instructions. What I got was:
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${make}... yes checking for working aclocal... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... found checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++O2 ) works... no configure: error installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables
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All I can say is that I didn't get this error. Maybe one of the list's gurus can help. This stuff can sure be a time sump! All I wanted to do what add a font to SO. I guess this is what SuSE means when they say "Have a lot of fun." :-) On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, you wrote:
Kenneth Kellum wrote:
This is pretty much what I did. Run configure untill it worked, which required installing some other packages, but not as many as it appears you'll need. autoconf and automake are on the SuSE CD. I must have installed them for some other reason.
Hmmm. I did need to install autoconf and autoheader. All the `missing' complaints disappeared, but I still get the complaint that (c++ -O2) doesn't work and that the compiler can't create executables. What's particularly odd is that when I type `c++ -O2' on a command line, it's accepted (though there's of course a complaint that there are no input files).
I must say that one of the irksome things about Gnu/Linux sometimes is that you get slammed by these system components you know little or much about, and the error messages assume you're an expert on them. On the other hand, Windows does the same thing.
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
A Nourai wrote:
Did u install t1lib before installing gfontview? Did you manage to set up t1lib? I had a bit of trouble doin this.
I couldn't even get started, alas. I picked up gfontview-0.3.2 from metalab.unc.edu, unpacked it, and did a ./configure according to the installation instructions. What I got was:
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${make}... yes checking for working aclocal... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... found checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++O2 ) works... no configure: error installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables
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On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Kenneth Kellum wrote:
This is pretty much what I did. Run configure untill it worked, which required installing some other packages, but not as many as it appears you'll need. autoconf and automake are on the SuSE CD. I must have installed them for some other reason.
aclocal is on my system, but I honestly don't know what it is or where it came from. My guess (and it's only a guess) is that it's part of the Gnome package.
Perhaps another reader of the list can enlighten us.
I *think* gfontview uses Gnome stuff (hence the "g").
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
A Nourai wrote:
Did u install t1lib before installing gfontview? Did you manage to set up t1lib? I had a bit of trouble doin this.
I couldn't even get started, alas. I picked up gfontview-0.3.2 from metalab.unc.edu, unpacked it, and did a ./configure according to the installation instructions. What I got was:
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${make}... yes checking for working aclocal... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... found checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++O2 ) works... no configure: error installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables
Any ideas as to what the problem might be?
Thanks --
Paul Abrahams -- Kenneth R. Kellum -- San Jose State University
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it comes from package automake. u also need autoconf. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
theres a lot of packages u need to have installed from the suse cd's. Use the package infomration thing in yast to serach for autoconf etc Most of them are in series d id say On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
A Nourai wrote:
Did u install t1lib before installing gfontview? Did you manage to set up t1lib? I had a bit of trouble doin this.
I couldn't even get started, alas. I picked up gfontview-0.3.2 from metalab.unc.edu, unpacked it, and did a ./configure according to the installation instructions. What I got was:
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${make}... yes checking for working aclocal... missing checking for working autoconf... missing checking for working automake... missing checking for working autoheader... missing checking for working makeinfo... found checking for c++... c++ checking whether the C++ compiler (c++O2 ) works... no configure: error installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables
Any ideas as to what the problem might be?
Thanks --
Paul Abrahams
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