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Bug 61176 - row numbers not shown with updated fonts
row numbers not shown with updated fonts
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: GUI
0.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-09-25 23:06 UTC by khc
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description khc 2001-09-25 23:06:57 UTC 
When the 75 and 100dpi fixed fonts for version 4.1.0-6 of xfree86 are
installed
(by command "dpkg -i xfonts-75dpi_4.1.0-6_all.deb")
then when gnumeric is run the row numbers are not shown but dotted boxes
are shown in their places.  Also the text on the Help/About screen is shown
as boxes only.
When the earlier font version are reinstalled
(by command "dpkg -i xfonts-75dpi_4.0.3-4.deb")
then when gnumeric is run the row numbers are correctly shown and so is
the help text.  (The updated 100dpi fonts only affect the title on the help
screen, but cause it to be replaced by boxes.)

This may be a bug in the x11 fonts, but I suspect the cause is that in
gnumeric the fonts are selected by absolute names rather than aliases and
the name for the particular one used for these row numbers has been changed
in some way in the x11 font distribution.

I almost forgot an important item:  I am not running the Gnome desktop
or window manager, but am running fvwm95.
Comment 1 Jody Goldberg 2001-09-26 15:24:36 UTC 
This was discussed in this weeks Debian News.  gnumeric was not being selective
enough in its specification of encoding.  I believe new font packages have been
released that handle the problem.  Until we port to gnome-2 (and utf8)
encodings will continue to be a problem.