On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 04:30:00PM +0200, Teemu Ikonen wrote: > > You're right, if I install either xfonts-100dpi or xfonts-75dpi, then > the Helvetica font appears on the Inkscape menu, but the font displays > the problems I described in the previous mail. If I remove both of > these packages, Inkscape does not find any Helvetica font in my > system. > > Perhaps this is a bug in Inkscape, at least other Gnome programs such > as gedit seem to work with the Helvetica bitmap font just fine...
This can be espected because Inkscape is a vector-based drawing program. Such programs require scalable fonts (PostScript, TTF) and can not use bitmapped fonts. As far as I know Debian doesn't provide scalable Helvetica font. In my opinion Inkscape should not show any bitmapped font in its menu regardless of what packages are installed. If you agree I will reassign this bug to inkskape. Otherwise we should close it. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
