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d_fajardo

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Registered: 2017-07-28

Posts: 1,687

Errors starting XDvi

I am getting this error when I run XDvi in the console:

Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
Error: XsraSelFile: can't get font 9x15

As I understand, there is a missing font it can't render so I tried installing xorg-fonts-misc and xorg-xlsfonts, recommendations from internet searches, but still the program won't run.
Any lead to where I can look for a solution?

dstjopa

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From: Poland

Registered: Yesterday

Posts: 1

Re: Errors starting XDvi

Hello,

I had similar issue recently.
Required default helvetica font is available by installing one of xorg-fonts-*dpi:

sudo pacman -S xorg-fonts-75dpi
# or
sudo pacman -S xorg-fonts-100dpi

Please find helv family (default "-*-helvetica-medium-..." from xdvi warning) font directory and register them for xlsfonts with mkfontdir:

find /usr/share/fonts/ -name "helv*"
...
/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/helvR12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz # get directory with your font
...

cd /usr/share/fonts/75dpi
sudo mkfontscale
sudo mkfontdir

xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/75dpi
xset fp rehash # refresh

Now xlsfonts should return registered fonts and xdvi can start properly.

xlsfonts -fn "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso10646-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso10646-1
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-67-iso8859-1
...

There is also an option for additional font with xdvi -altfont, but I didn't try it yet.

WorMzy

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Registered: 2010-06-16

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Re: Errors starting XDvi

Mod note: closing this ancient thread.

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