On 2008/04/28, at 15:57, Tom Conlon wrote:
> On my PowerPC Mac, SWI-Prolog v5.6.52 ran XPCE under X11 v2.1.4
> without problems.
>
> But when I installed X11 v2.2, a serious font problem appeared.
> "Helvetica bold" appears as a few smudges in the XPCE Font Viewer.
> This makes XPCE unusable. As a workaround, I've redefined
> display.system_fonts in a way that avoids Helvetica, but this isn't
> very satisfactory.
>
> The problem might be specific to my Mac (I've had X11 font problems
> before now).
>
> Can PPC Mac users on this list tell me whether X11 2.2 runs XPCE
> correctly on their machines, please?
>
> I tried reinstalling X11 v2.1.4, but strangely the font problem
> remained. I've also tried the latest v2.2.0.1 release -- still the
> same problem.
I'm using an *Intel* Mac, not a PowerPC one but... The Font Viewer
application does not show any problem with the "Helvetica bold" font.
I'm running X11 2.2.0.1 on MacOS X 10.5.2.
Cheers,
Paulo
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