[Xastir] One more thing

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 02:55:12PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jjolin at itol.com> flavor, containing:
> What is this error message all about.  When I installed xastir it used 
> Imagemagick.
> 
> get_rotated_label_text_height_pixels: Couldn't get font 
> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> get_rotated_label_text_length_pixels: Couldn't get font 
> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> get_rotated_label_text_height_pixels: Couldn't get font 
> -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> get_rotated_label_text_length_pixels: Couldn't get font 
> -adobe-helvetica-medium-

Some systems (e.g. Ubuntu 12.04) removed the 75- and 100-dpi fonts package
from what used to be standard install of X.  It may be that Mint did, too.

I had exactly the same problem on my Ubuntu 12.04 system.  See 
http://www.xastir.org/wiki/HowTo:Ubuntu_12.04 and look for the "default fonts 
rudely left out" comment.


Try adding xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi packages.  You may have to 
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi to make the
X server find the newly installed fonts at first.  (It'll find them find after
restarting the server, but if you don't want to restart, you may need that
command.)

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