X11 Cannot load TrueType Symbol or MonoType Sorts (dingbat) fonts
State
10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory
xserver:font
Keywords
Responsible Engineer
Jay Hobson
Reported Against
s10
Duplicate Of
Introduced In
Commit to Fix
snv_33
Fixed In
snv_33
Release Fixed
solaris_nevada(snv_33)
Related Bugs
Submit Date
11-January-2006
Last Update Date
13-November-2009
Description
Solaris 10 SPARC :
% xlsfonts | grep "monotype-monotype sorts" | grep dingbats
-monotype-monotype sorts-regular-r---0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-dingbats
Corresponds to TrueType fonts in /usr/openwin/X11/fonts/TrueType
% grep MonotypeSorts fonts.dir
MonotypeSorts.ttf -monotype-monotype sorts-regular-r---0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-dingbats
Similarly
% xlsfonts | grep monotype | grep symbol
-monotype-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-symbol
% grep Symbol.ttf fonts.dir
Symbol.ttf -monotype-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-symbol
However neither of these fonts appear usable by X11 :-
% xfd -fn "-monotype-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-symbol"
Warning: Cannot convert string "-monotype-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-symbol" to type FontStruct
xfd: no font to display
xfontsel doesn't seem to like them either : once you make the pattern specific enough
eg "-monotype-symbol-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-adobe-symbol"
then it doesn't repaint!
There are a few bugs like :
Bug ID: 4289578
Synopsis: zh.GBK: s28_35: Cannot find encoding file for adobe-symbol
Bug ID: 4179922
Synopsis: Cannot load TrueType Symbol font
which suggest that the problem is no ".enc" file but these bugs
are closed as "fixed" in a way that isn't apparent to me.
It doesn't seem very resolved to me ..