Re: edm questions

["Sinclair, John William" <sinclairjw@ornl.gov>]

Yes, the fonts come from exceed. The missing text is probably the result of the objects in question being motif widgets which have their own font requirements.

From: "rivers@cars.uchicago.edu<mailto:rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>" <rivers@cars.uchicago.edu<mailto:rivers@cars.uchicago.edu>>
Date: Friday, November 28, 2014 at 9:34 AM
To: "'Linda.Pratt@diamond.ac.uk<mailto:'Linda.Pratt@diamond.ac.uk>'" <Linda.Pratt@diamond.ac.uk<mailto:Linda.Pratt@diamond.ac.uk>>, aps <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov<mailto:tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>>
Subject: RE: edm questions

Thanks for the response to my edm question.

I should have said in my original post that I am running edm on a Fedora 15 Linux system, but I am displaying on a Windows 7 machine running Exceed 14 as the X11 server.  So the fonts come from Exceed, correct?

Since edm reports that it did successfully replace the missing arial fonts with my system default helvetica fonts, is the fact that my button and menu widgets have no text at all on them likely to be a font problem or something else?  Note that the menu widgets do display text for the dropdown list, but the currently selected item does not display its text.

Thanks,
Mark


From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov<mailto:tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov> [mailto:tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Linda.Pratt@diamond.ac.uk<mailto:Linda.Pratt@diamond.ac.uk>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 4:21 AM
To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov<mailto:tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>
Subject: RE: edm questions

Mark,

Attachments of DLS colours and fonts, the result of running the file and asking EDM to view the font mappings on my RHEL6 and RHEL5 and a snapshot of part of the screen as it is intended to look in editing and run modes (PVs all disconnected though).
We mostly have RHEL6 in production use.

Linda

Software Systems Engineer
Controls Department
linda.pratt@diamond.ac.uk<mailto:linda.pratt@diamond.ac.uk>
+44 (0)1235 778058
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From: Bruce Hill [mailto:bhill@slac.stanford.edu]
Sent: 26 November 2014 22:01
To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov<mailto:tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: edm questions

Hi Mark,
This sounds like a font problem.    I'm on vacation today
and need to get back to some furniture moving, but I'm attaching
a copy of our fonts.list and colors.list files so you have some
more examples to work from.    The colors are probably fine
with the default, but fonts can be tricky depending on your
linux distribution.    The attached ones work for us from RHEL5,
RHEL6, and from windows systems.

Edm widget layouts assume a standard dpi, so you should use
either 75dpi or 100dpi fonts exclusively in your fonts.list file.
I think the default is 75dpi, which is what we're using.

You should install xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi, or the xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
depending on which way you go.   You should also install xorg-x11-fonts-misc
and xorg-x11-fonts-truetype as well.

If you're still having trouble, post a copy of your fonts.list file and
any console error msgs and I'll take a look later.

Cheers,
- Bruce
On 11/26/2014 1:25 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:
Folks,

I am new to edm and am having problems with fonts or colors or something.

The problem is that all of the buttons in the edm display appear to be lacking labels and the text entry widgets have no text.  I have attached a screen shot of the edm display showing the problem.

Is this due to the font errors, or a color problem, or something else?

When I run an edm display from Diamond Light Source I get the following errors repeating from edm in a message window:

Cannot find font: [arial-bold-r-10.0]
  Using default window font: [arial-bold-r-12.0]
Cannot find default window font: [arial-bold-r-12.0]
  Using default site font: [helvetica-medium-r-10.0]

It appears that it did find my default site font, helvetica-medium-r-10.0.

Here are the arial fonts on my system:

corvette:aravisGigEApp/op/edl>xlsfonts | grep arial
--arial-bold-i---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
--arial-bold-i---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
--arial-bold-r---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
--arial-bold-r---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
--arial-medium-i---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
--arial-medium-i---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
--arial-medium-r---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
--arial-medium-r---0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-bold-i-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-bold-i-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-bold-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-bold-r-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-medium-i-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-medium-i-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1
-monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-p-0-iso8859-1

I added those fonts to my fonts.list, but I still get the same errors.

Thanks,
Mark



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