John Dougherty <jwdougherty at mcihispeed.net> writes:
> Some plots fail due to a problem with the X11 fonts. I get a message that
> "X11 font at size 22 could not be loaded." The demo() graphics
routine for
> instance dies during the third chart. The graphics demo calls
"font.main=1"
> and that seems to be where the error is. I believe this is due to a
> configuration problem on my system, however I can't find where in the
> environment font.main looks for the font to use.
>
> I am running SuSE 9.0 and use the KDE desktop. However, I have also
> replicated this in GNOME and WindowMaker. Varying the fonts used by the
> console does notb effect the result.
I think that in principle the bug is in R, but as far as I remember,
the workaround is to ensure that you either have scalable PostScript
fonts or have non-scalable versions in both 100 and 75 dpi. This in
turn is assured by configuring the font server.
On RedHat (dunno about SuSE),/etc/X11/fs/config needs to have
something like
catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
...
or lose the :unscaled, but that tends to look horrible.
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