I have a very picky piece of software that I _almost_ have running on Fedora 11. This particular program was compiled and running on an old Fedora 6 box, so it's taken a bit of work to move it over. (Sadly, fixing it or recompiling it is not an option.)

The problem I have is this:

When I start the software I get this error:

libbgr: BgrUseXFonts: can't XLoadQueryFont *helvetica-medium-r-normal--8*
libbgr: BgrUseXFonts: can't XLoadQueryFont *helvetica-medium-r-normal--10*
libbgr: BgrUseXFonts: can't XLoadQueryFont *helvetica-medium-r-normal--12*
libbgr: BgrUseXFonts: can't XLoadQueryFont *helvetica-medium-r-normal--18*
libbgr: BgrUseXFonts: can't XLoadQueryFont *helvetica-medium-r-normal--24*
[User Preferences]X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 1735
Current serial number in output stream: 1748

So, this thing wants some specific helvetica fonts. On my current Fedora 11 system I ran "xlsfonts | grep helvetica-medium-r-normal" and got this:

-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-56-iso10646-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--11-80-100-100-p-56-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-100-100-100-p-76-iso10646-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-100-100-100-p-76-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso10646-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-88-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-p-100-iso10646-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-p-100-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--25-180-100-100-p-130-iso10646-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--25-180-100-100-p-130-iso8859-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-176-iso10646-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--34-240-100-100-p-176-iso8859-1


Awesome. I have lots of helvetica fonts that look like they will work, but none are in the size range I'm looking for. (e.g. 10,12,18 and 24)

I went back to my Fedora 6 box and found that there were a lot more choices available. Specifically, there are lines which list the helvetica font at the size I need.

So, my question is this. How can I take the information from xlsfonts and use that to figure out which package contains these fonts? If I can install a legacy package on Fedora 11 to provide the fonts I need, that would be best. Otherwise, if I can figure out where the physical font files are stored on the Fedora 6 box, I can copy them over by hand and add them to my ~/.fonts directory. Either way, I don't know how to go from this information to actual files.

Unfortunately, we've hit the end of my linux font knowledge, so I'm hoping somebody reads this and knows what do do next. Please help!

Thanks in advance

-Max

Huh...not sure about the app, but it could be that it's looking for a specific name, too. Perhaps adobe-helvetica won't be liked, while just helvetica would.

I came across this package:
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/dis...c11.noarch.rpm

You can probably get a similar one via your Fedora repos, too, if you don't already have it installed. A post in another forum said that it solved a similar problem for someone else. Otherwise, you might want to see if you can find just a TrueType Helvetica font, and install it.

often if you just copy the closest matching size of the newer font to the name of the older font it will work fine without any noticable change.
worth a shot.

I wasn't able to find a way to grab the specific file from the Fedora 6 system, but just through a bit of playing with yum and a bit of luck I did find what I needed. It turns out I needed to add:

fonts-ISO8859-2-75dpi.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi.noarch
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi.noarch

Somewhere in those 3 packages all the fonts I needed showed up. It looks like the helvetica-medium-r-normal--XX numbers all referred to 75 dpi fonts, which weren't installed by default.

I'm just happy to not be working on it any more

Thanks for making some suggestions TBOne.

-Max

No problem...glad you got it solved.