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From: khaled@sunb2.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: fonts getting in the way
Message-ID: <42100005@sunb2>
Date: 24 Jul 90 17:46:00 GMT
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Nf-From: sunb2.cs.uiuc.edu!khaled    Jul 24 12:46:00 1990



When using x functions from another machine, some work, but
some don't, and it seems that the remote machine is looking 
for a certain font on my host machine, and does not find any.
I don't know how it doesn't find ANY, since some DO work.

More specifically, suppose I want to use "xfig" from another
machine, the following is a trace of what happens on the other
machine :

sunb2-10>xfig
Initializing FIG v2.0 Protocol v1.4X (X11 patchlevel 5) ... 
Error: Unable to load any useable ISO8859-1 font
sunb2-11>

I should note that on another host machines these programs do work,
so it is not a matter of these programs being bad.

So is it the case that the program is looking for a specific font,
or font family or something, and not finding it??
If that is the case, how can I check the fonts that ARE available,
the fonts that the program is looking for, and how can I add
to my existing set of fonts the fonts the program is looking for??

I appreciate the help, 

Thanks, 

-Khaled