problems with ImageMagick, display command
James Wilkinson
fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk
Sat Apr 8 20:27:29 UTC 2006
Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am having trouble with Imagemagick. I can use
> import, convert commands but display is not working
> correctly. It gives error message.
>
> [tonio at localhost Documents]$ display factoring.png
> display: unable to load font
> `-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'.
> display: unable to load font
> `-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'.
> [tonio at localhost Documents]$ display Fedora\ 5\
> x86_DVD.jpg
> display: unable to load font
> `-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'.
> display: unable to load font
> `-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1'.
> [tonio at localhost Documents]$
>
>
> I guess helvetica fonts are not installed. I went to
> ImmageMagick website and found resources page
Works for me -- *unless* I disable xfs.
Do you have xfs running?
$ ps -ef | grep xfs
xfs 2160 1 0 18:52 ? 00:00:00 xfs -droppriv -daemon
james 9138 9044 0 21:15 pts/2 00:00:00 grep xfs
If I remember correctly, not having xfs running won't hurt for most
programs. But ImageMagick uses the older fonts system: see for example
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/#sn-xwindows-xorg (this
topic is not dealt with in the FC5 release notes).
Helvetica *should* be there on your system. Which fonts RPMs do you
have? I know I've got more than the default, but I've got:
bitmap-fonts-0.3-5.1.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-base-7.0-3.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.0-3.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.0-3.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.0-3.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.0-3.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.0-3.noarch
urw-fonts-2.3-6.1.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.0-3.noarch
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-13.1.noarch
bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-5.1.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.0-3.noarch
James.
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