[Bug 452568] New: all X applications fail with X error: cannot find font
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Summary: all X applications fail with X error: cannot find font
Product: Fedora
Version: 9
Platform: i386
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: urgent
Priority: low
Component: xorg-x11-fonts
AssignedTo: xgl-maint(a)redhat.com
ReportedBy: sds(a)gnu.org
QAContact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
CC: fedora-fonts-bugs-list(a)redhat.com
Description of problem:
most X applications fail with an X error saying that it cannot find an object.
it turns out the that object is usually a font.
this means that when I start X, all I see is a blank screen - no nautilus, no
panels, no way to start a gnome-terminal or an xterm or firefox.
(I am typing this on another machine, and I do not have ssh access to the
problematic machine atm).
the X log also indicates errors to load modules "record" and "type1".
(apparently, "type1" has been subsumed into "freetype" - what about "record"?).
I have many font packages installed, including the type1 font package.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
latest ("yum -u upgrade" nightly)
How reproducible:
always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.start x
2.
3.
Actual results:
blank X screen, no desktop icons (like home, computer, trash), no panels.
just the mouse pointer which can be moved but which has not thing to click on.
Expected results:
X screen with panels, icons, menues &c.
Additional info:
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[Issue 69129] Add support for Graphite font technology
by sharoncorrell@openoffice.org
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http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=69129
------- Additional comments from sharoncorrell(a)openoffice.org Wed Jun 25 16:15:04 +0000 2008 -------
I would like to see better Graphite support, since I think Graphite is the most
powerful smart-font technology in existence (okay, as a developer I'm a little
biased :-) and it is semi-crippled without support for the feature mechanism.
However, I need to correct the statements by "jurf" that Graphite provides
support for OpenType features. Graphite knows nothing about OpenType. The
WorldPad editor uses Uniscribe and hence OpenType for fonts that have no
Graphite tables in them. But Graphite itself does not handle OpenType tables.
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[Bug 452317] Review Request: heuristica-fonts - Heuristica font
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Summary: Review Request: heuristica-fonts - Heuristica font
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452317
------- Additional Comments From nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net 2008-06-25 04:30 EST -------
Actually, googling the it a bit it seems:
1. last time this went to court the patent angle was rejected and the copyright
angle upholded
2. the entity that sued and was the patent holder was Adobe
3. the authorization Adobe gave to the TEX user group explicitely covers
copyright and talks about font modifications
So I don't really see Adobe suing for patents when they gave the green light to
modifications and redistribution themselves, and courts refused the patent
argument before.
But IANAL, so this is for fedora-legal to decide. And if the text of the current
TEX User Group grant is not good enough, presumably a better one can be
negociated with Adobe since the release of Utopia comes from them.
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[Bug 452317] Review Request: heuristica-fonts - Heuristica font
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Summary: Review Request: heuristica-fonts - Heuristica font
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452317
nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net changed:
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------- Additional Comments From nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net 2008-06-25 01:53 EST -------
Fun. What I don't understand then is how Adobe (which is a serious firm, with
real lawyers) could give the font to the TEX user group with a license that
allowed OFL-ing. Would you have the name of the Adobe contact per chance?
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[Issue 90735] fonts displayed are thin, weak, malformed
by jurf@openoffice.org
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http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=90735
------- Additional comments from jurf(a)openoffice.org Wed Jun 25 01:34:22 +0000 2008 -------
Can't confirm (no fonts or Gentoo, so I may be completely off-mark) but I can
say that although the fonts on the two screenshots appear different, the
relative spacing is identical, so visual differences in glyph outlines appear to
be the result of rendering/hinting (the oowriter-2.4.1 version is properly
hinted, either either grayscale or whatever the Gentoo equivalent to ClearType
is, whilst the 3.0 version isn't).
My guess is something up with Freetype 2.3.6.
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[Issue 88613] Canvas: cairo-based font rendering
by pl@openoffice.org
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http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=88613
User pl changed the following:
What |Old value |New value
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Issue type|PATCH |ENHANCEMENT
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------- Additional comments from pl(a)openoffice.org Tue Jun 24 08:39:07 +0000 2008 -------
As is the patch will probably not go in (internal VCL API exposed). With the
target "later" I also assume, that this needs further work, so I'll set the type
from "patch" to "enhancement". This is merely to make this issue move out of the
patch statisctics into which it does not seem to belong.
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