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"Lauritsen, Torben via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Mon, 4 Jan 2021 00:02:28 +0000

I've recently made my newly compiled EDM work on Scientific Linux 7
(CentOS 7 like) with the attached fonts.list file. I believe I did a 

  yum install xorg-x11-fonts*

to get the fonts.

Happy New Year,

torben

On Thu, 2020-12-31 at 16:40 -0800, Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk
wrote:
> Back in the day (2009) I looked into the arcane details of X fonts.
> 
> My first piece of advice is to begin migrating from EDM to
> something less ancient.  cs-studio, pydm, or caqtdm are all options.
> There are some .edl file converters available.  My recent experience
> with the converting in cs-studio/phoebus was good.  It mostly just
> worked.
> 
> https://control-system-studio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/app/display/convert-medm/doc/index.html#converting-edm-edl-displays
> 
> My second suggestion is to simply remove the offending lines from
> the font.list file.  This is a list of available fonts, not all
> of which are used by any particular set of .edl files.  As I recall,
> the default is usually "helvetica", you may not need the "schoolbook"
> fonts.
> 
> If you really need to get into the details.
> 
> The 'xlsfonts' executable will output a list of fonts in the current
> X server search path
> 
> > $ xlsfonts -fn '-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-75-75-*-*-*-*'
> 
> I wrote a script to transform this output into the EDM font list
> format.
> My notes for using it say:
> 
> > $ cat << EOF > fonts.list
> > 3 0 0
> > helvetica-medium-r-12.0
> > helvetica-medium-r-18.0
> > EOF
> > $ xlsfonts -fn '-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-75-75-*-*-*-*' | ./fontparse.py >>
> > fonts.list
> 
> https://github.com/epicsdeb/edm/blob/master/debian/patches/0004-fixup-font-list-for-Debian.patch
> 
> I'm also attaching the script file without the diff markup.
> 
> Running on my (Debian 10) laptop now gives the following.  I have the
> "xfonts-75pi" package install.
> 
> > 3 0 0
> > helvetica-medium-r-12.0
> > helvetica-medium-r-18.0
> > charter=-*-charter-(medium,bold)-(r,i)-normal--*-
> > (80,100,120,140,180,240)-75-75-p-*-*-*
> > helvetica=-*-helvetica-(medium,bold)-(r,i,o)-(narrow,normal)--*-
> > (80,100,120,140,180,240)-75-75-p-*-*-*
> > new century schoolbook=-*-new century schoolbook-(medium,bold)-
> > (r,i)-normal--*-(80,100,120,140,180,240)-75-75-p-*-*-*
> > lucidabright=-*-lucidabright-(medium,demibold)-(r,i)-normal--*-
> > (80,100,120,140,180,190,240)-75-75-p-*-*-*
> > lucida=-*-lucida-(medium,bold)-(r,i)-normal-sans-*-
> > (80,100,120,140,180,190,240)-75-75-p-*-*-*
> > courier=-*-courier-(medium,bold)-(r,i,o)-normal--*-
> > (80,100,120,140,180,240)-75-75-(p,m)-*-*-*
> > lucidatypewriter=-*-lucidatypewriter-(medium,bold)-r-normal-sans-*-
> > (80,100,120,140,180,190,240)-75-75-m-*-*-*
> > times=-*-times-(medium,bold)-(r,i)-normal--*-
> > (80,100,120,140,180,240)-75-75-p-*-*-*
> > clean=-*-clean-(medium,bold)-(r,i)-normal--*-
> > (60,80,100,120,130,140,150,160)-75-75-c-*-*-*
> > fixed=-*-fixed-(medium,bold)-(r,o)-(semicondensed,normal)-(,ko,ja)-
> > *-(60,70,80,90,100,110,120,130,140,150,200,230)-75-75-c-*$
> 
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/31/20 10:42 AM, Johnson, Andrew N. via Tech-talk wrote:
> > On Dec 29, 2020, at 8:58 PM, lzf neu via Tech-talk <
> > tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <mailto:tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I have tried but the same problem still exists.
> > > 
> > > Maybe my updated CentOS 7 system is lack of "century schoolbook
> > > font", the corresponding font package I searched in the web is
> > > "texlive-palatino-svn28614.0-45.el7.noarch.rpm".
> > > However, when I yum install it, the terminal gives the following
> > > information: 
> > > Package 2:texlive-palatino-svn28614.0-45.el7.noarch already
> > > installed and latest version.
> > > 
> > > I have no idea what the problem  is. 
> > 
> > On my RHEL-7 system the Century Schoolbook fonts are called “new
> > century schoolbook” (your error message doesn’t have “new” in the
> > name) and are installed in these standard X11 packages:
> > 
> > > xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.5-9.el7.noarch
> > > xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.5-9.el7.noarch
> > 
> > etc. You almost certainly have those installed, so my question is
> > why edm is looking for “century schoolbook” instead of “new century
> > schoolbook”. Our (now very old) installation of edm has this line
> > in the edmMain/fonts.list file
> > 
> > > new centuryschoolbook=-*-centuryschoolbook l-(medium,bold)-(r,i)-
> > > normal--0-(80,90,100,110,120,140,180,240,320,480,720)-75-75-p-0-
> > > *-*
> > 
> > but these lines in the setup/fonts.list file:
> > 
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-i-normal--8-80-75-75-p-56-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-i-normal--10-100-75-75-p-66-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-i-normal--12-120-75-75-p-76-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-i-normal--14-140-75-75-p-88-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-i-normal--18-180-75-75-p-111-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-i-normal--24-240-75-75-p-148-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-66-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-77-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-87-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-r-normal--18-180-75-75-p-113-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p-149-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-bold-r-normal--8-80-75-75-p-56-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-i-normal--10-100-75-75-p-60-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-i-normal--12-120-75-75-p-70-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-i-normal--14-140-75-75-p-81-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-i-normal--18-180-75-75-p-
> > > 104-iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-i-normal--24-240-75-75-p-
> > > 136-iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-i-normal--8-80-75-75-p-50-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-60-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-70-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-82-
> > > iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-p-
> > > 103-iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-p-
> > > 137-iso8859-1
> > > -adobe-new century schoolbook-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-p-50-
> > > iso8859-1
> > 
> > Did you perhaps miss a step when installing edm?
> > 
> > - Andrew
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > *发件人:* 米清茹 <miqingru at sinap.ac.cn <mailto:miqingru at sinap.ac.cn>>
> > > *发送时间:* 2020年12月30日 1:39
> > > *收件人:* tech-talkepics <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <mailto:
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> > > lzfneu at live.com>>
> > > *主题:* Re: Question about the font name for EDM
> > >  
> > > Hi, neu
> > >     A softlinked file can be built after 75dpi installed with
> > > yum.
> > >     # ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi /etc/X11/fontpath.d/75dpi
> > >     
> > >     100dpi can be built in the same way.
> > > 
> > >     I have used this way on any centos7 version.
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> > >     Deal all,
> > >     Recently I have update centos 7 to the version: CentOS Linux
> > > release 7.8.2003 (Core)
> > >     However, edm cannot be run correctly as before, the new
> > > problem is as follows when typing edm command in the terminal:
> > >      
> > >     No such font available: [-*-century schoolbook l-medium-r-
> > > normal--0-80-75-75-p-0-*-*]
> > >     Last line processed: 12
> > >     Font init failed - abort
> > >      
> > >     I have already set the following command in bashrc:
> > >     xset fp+ /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi
> > >      
> > >     and the problem still occurs.
> > >      
> > >     Maybe I should install new font and I have no idea what the
> > > font name is I should type using yum install command.
> > >     Thank you in advance.
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