Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!hp4nl!alchemy!ruunfs!muts From: muts@fysak.fys.ruu.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Help! Font mismatch between X11R4 and X11R3 Keywords: Fonts, Sun OS, Ultix Message-ID: Date: 20 Apr 91 18:13:13 GMT References: <4004@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> Sender: usenet@fys.ruu.nl (News Control) Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht Lines: 20 sankar@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Sankar Bala) writes: >I have some applications developed in Sun OS 4.1 OSF/motif 1.0 (X11R4) which >I transferred to DEC ULTRIX 4.1 running DEC Windows/motif 1.0 (X11R3). The >application has some text trims, boxes etc. There seems to be a big mismatch >with text trims and boxes when it runs on X11R3. I suspect the reason could be >of different font libraries in X11R4 and X11R3. Can someone colud advice/suggest >me a way to get rid of the problem. Throw out X11R3 (I don't understand why that is still being supplied) and install X11R4 from mit which is available free, has ultrix 3.1 support and does not have the terrible dx.. dec specific programs. The only thing you have to change for ultrix 4.1 is the location of two include files in the server code (easy to find) and fill in a macro omitting the (int) typecast which would otherwise appear on the lhs of -- Peter Mutsaers email: muts@fysap.fys.ruu.nl Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht muts@fys.ruu.nl Princetonplein 5 tel: (+31)-(0)30-533880 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands