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Description
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Common applications (including at least "xfig" and "dia," but probably
others) have a core set of well-known font names that they expect to
have implemented. These include names that look like:
Times-Roman-12
Courier-12
Times-BoldItalic-18
On Xsun, and apparently on most other operating systems, these fonts
are present or at least have local aliases. On Xorg running on
Solaris x86, however, these fonts are missing.
This problem makes common tools such as xfig and dia essentially
unusable on Solaris x86.
To reproduce: just install any of those tools from blastwave or any
other source, attempt to add text (usually the "T" icon) anywhere, and
observe the errors.
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Work Around
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Run the application on Solaris SPARC instead, or switch from Xorg to
Xsun. If displaying on x86 and running xfig on SPARC, it's apparently
possible to use "-noscalablefonts" to fix the problem, but this
doesn't work (for some reason) if running on x86.
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