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TheCyberDude
08-17-2003, 09:31 PM
I get Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font trying to launch many programs.

Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct

I've search on web, found many topics about this - but no fix.

Any help appreciated - Thanks.

Knoppix 3.2 (Debian) DVD Edition
XFree86 4.3.0
gcc version 3.3 (Debian)

TheCyberDude
08-19-2003, 06:31 PM
After 3 days of searching, I found the solution.

ADD to XFConfig-4 file:

FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"

You might have the above entries in XFConfig-4, I just added the :unscaled.

I think you can leave your orginal 2, and add the 2 above also.

Good Luck !

P.S. If you are using Netscape 4.77 you can add the below to
/home/knoppix/X.defaults file.

Netscape*DocumentFonts.sizeIncrement: 10
Netscape*documentFonts.xResolution*iso-8859-1: 100
Netscape*documentFonts.yResolution*iso-8859-1: 100

This solves bad font problem...