[opensuse] Google Earth Font Problem
When I run Google Earth, I get a warning message that says: "You don't seem to have Bitstream Vera Sans font installed. Most Linux distributions should ship with this font preinstalled. If you don't have it, you can find a free download and installations at the following link. We will continue with whatever font we could find, but some text may look incorrect. http://www.gnome.org/fonts " Yast shows that "bitstream-vera Bitstream Vera(tm) Truetype fonts Ver. 1.10-199 is installed. I am reluctant to go to the gnome site and install a second version for fear of incompatibilities later. Also, I d/l'd the listed package, and the fonts in the package match up namewise with the fonts listed in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Vera*. SuSE 10.2/32 Has anyone else seen and fixed this? TIA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat February 2 2008 06:21:38 Jim Sabatke wrote:
When I run Google Earth, I get a warning message that says:
"You don't seem to have Bitstream Vera Sans font installed. Most Linux distributions should ship with this font preinstalled. If you don't have it, you can find a free download and installations at the following link. We will continue with whatever font we could find, but some text may look incorrect.
http://www.gnome.org/fonts " [...]
Has anyone else seen and fixed this?
I just ignore it and it works fine. -- Carlos FL "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that." - G. H. Hardy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Carlos F. Lange wrote:
On Sat February 2 2008 06:21:38 Jim Sabatke wrote:
When I run Google Earth, I get a warning message that says:
"You don't seem to have Bitstream Vera Sans font installed. Most Linux distributions should ship with this font preinstalled. If you don't have it, you can find a free download and installations at the following link. We will continue with whatever font we could find, but some text may look incorrect.
http://www.gnome.org/fonts " [...]
Has anyone else seen and fixed this?
I just ignore it and it works fine.
That's what I've been doing too. That's probably the best answer I'm going to get. TY, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 02 February 2008 07:21:38 am Jim Sabatke wrote:
When I run Google Earth, I get a warning message that says:
"You don't seem to have Bitstream Vera Sans font installed. Most Linux distributions should ship with this font preinstalled. If you don't have it, you can find a free download and installations at the following link. We will continue with whatever font we could find, but some text may look incorrect.
Yast shows that "bitstream-vera Bitstream Vera(tm) Truetype fonts Ver. 1.10-199 is installed.
I am reluctant to go to the gnome site and install a second version for fear of incompatibilities later.
Also, I d/l'd the listed package, and the fonts in the package match up namewise with the fonts listed in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Vera*.
SuSE 10.2/32
Has anyone else seen and fixed this?
TIA
It is a directory where Bitstream Vera is installed. I'm not sure about 10.2. So far I recall I just checked not to ask anymore. The other option is to remove Bitstream Vera from file 'secondaryfontfamily' so that Google stops complaining: ~/.googleearth/Registry/google/googleearthplus/User/render/secondaryfontfamily Some post mentioned to run mkfontdir and mkfontscale in usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera after Vera fonts are copied to this directory, but that should be done by SuSEconfig. I have latest version of Google Earth. Font change in Tools -> Options 3D Fonts changes only primary fonts, so it seems that Bitstream Vera is secondary font to use if there is no primary. For instance default primary is Arial, and it is not installed here, but program works fine due to automatic substition provided by Qt. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jim Sabatke wrote:
When I run Google Earth, I get a warning message that says:
"You don't seem to have Bitstream Vera Sans font installed. Most Linux distributions should ship with this font preinstalled. If you don't have it, you can find a free download and installations at the following link. We will continue with whatever font we could find, but some text may look incorrect.
Yast shows that "bitstream-vera Bitstream Vera(tm) Truetype fonts Ver. 1.10-199 is installed.
I am reluctant to go to the gnome site and install a second version for fear of incompatibilities later.
Also, I d/l'd the listed package, and the fonts in the package match up namewise with the fonts listed in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Vera*.
SuSE 10.2/32
Has anyone else seen and fixed this?
Ignore the warning message. GoogleEarth runs fine as it is.
TIA
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On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 07:21 -0600, Jim Sabatke wrote:
When I run Google Earth, I get a warning message that says:
"You don't seem to have Bitstream Vera Sans font installed. Most Linux distributions should ship with this font preinstalled. If you don't have it, you can find a free download and installations at the following link. We will continue with whatever font we could find, but some text may look incorrect.
Yast shows that "bitstream-vera Bitstream Vera(tm) Truetype fonts Ver. 1.10-199 is installed.
I am reluctant to go to the gnome site and install a second version for fear of incompatibilities later.
Also, I d/l'd the listed package, and the fonts in the package match up namewise with the fonts listed in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Vera*.
SuSE 10.2/32
Has anyone else seen and fixed this?
TIA
Fixed this by downloading fonts from Gnome site, unzipping and copying
them to "/usr/share/fonts/truetype".
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Sudhir
On 2008/02/06 05:25 (GMT) Sudhir apparently typed:
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 07:21 -0600, Jim Sabatke wrote:
When I run Google Earth, I get a warning message that says:
"You don't seem to have Bitstream Vera Sans font installed. Most Linux distributions should ship with this font preinstalled.
That's obsolete language. Most distributions used to ship with Vera. There's no reason for them to any more....
If you don't
have it, you can find a free download and installations at the following link. We will continue with whatever font we could find, but some text may look incorrect.
Yast shows that "bitstream-vera Bitstream Vera(tm) Truetype fonts Ver. 1.10-199 is installed.
I am reluctant to go to the gnome site and install a second version for fear of incompatibilities later.
Also, I d/l'd the listed package, and the fonts in the package match up namewise with the fonts listed in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Vera*.
SuSE 10.2/32
Has anyone else seen and fixed this?
Fixed this by downloading fonts from Gnome site, unzipping and copying them to "/usr/share/fonts/truetype".
It's Google Earth that's broken. There's nothing to fix on the SUSE end. DejaVu is a currently developed superset of the no longer developed Vera. So unless you uninstalled DejaVu, you have everything Vera had to offer. -- "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Aaron Kulkis -
Carlos F. Lange -
Felix Miata -
Jim Sabatke -
Rajko M. -
Sudhir