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  • Are these scalable fonts?

    From Winston@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 7 19:37:16 2016
    Do these XLFDs:

    -adobe-helvetica-bold-o-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso10646-1
    -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso10646-1
    -adobe-helvetica-medium-o-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso10646-1
    -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso10646-1

    indicate scalable fonts? xlsfonts lists them, but I haven't found those
    XLFDs in any fonts.scale or even fonts.dir.

    Thanks!
    -WBE

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  • From Julian Bradfield@21:1/5 to Winston on Tue Mar 8 09:25:52 2016
    On 2016-03-08, Winston <wbe@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid> wrote:
    Do these XLFDs:
    -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso10646-1

    indicate scalable fonts? xlsfonts lists them, but I haven't found those XLFDs in any fonts.scale or even fonts.dir.

    Yes. The Linux X servers handle type1 fonts natively.
    They're probably in /usr/share/fonts/Type1 or somewhere like that -
    but they should be listed in the fonts.dir there. (They're not in
    mine, because my distribution has bitmapped helvetica fonts.)
    Or maybe recent servers don't even need a font dir.

    Alternatively, you may have a font server (xfs) running, which is picking up Type1 fonts from somewhere and making them available to the X server.
    Have a look at your font path.

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