Adobe-helvetica-medium on Ubuntu 14.04

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Hi,
I installed root on Ubuntu 14.04 and encountered this error:

Couldn’t find font “-adobe-helvetica-medium-r---10-----*-iso8859-1”

this problem has been addressed previously:
[url]Adobe helvetica on ubuntu 11.04

however the proposed solution doesn’t work any more since xfs has been removed from the newest release:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=733958

Is there a work around for this?

Thanks,
Luis

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Hi Luis,
I guess you ask yourself for this font in your .rootrc by a line like this:

May be your problem goes away by replacing “adobe” by “*”

If not:
what gives the command:xlsfonts -l -fn "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
The font should be in the ubuntu package xfonts-75dpi
Cheers
Otto

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The package xfonts-75dpi is already installed to the latest version. To check the .rootrc file I did gEnv->Print() which shows:

Gui.DefaultFont: --helvetica-medium-r---12------iso8859-1 [Global]
Gui.MenuFont: --helvetica-medium-r---12------iso8859-1 [Global]
Gui.MenuHiFont: --helvetica-bold-r---12------iso8859-1 [Global]
Gui.DocFixedFont: --courier-medium-r---12------iso8859-1 [Global]
Gui.DocPropFont: --helvetica-medium-r---12------iso8859-1 [Global]
Gui.IconFont: --helvetica-medium-r---10------iso8859-1 [Global]
Gui.StatusFont: --helvetica-medium-r---10------iso8859-1 [Global]

I changed however “X11.UseXft” from “no” to “yes” in the .rootrc and the error message is gone.

Just for completeness, the output of xlsfonts -l -fn “-adobe-helvetica-medium-r---10-----*-iso8859-1” shows:

DIR MIN MAX EXIST DFLT PROP ASC DESC NAME
–> 0 255 some 0 27 10 2 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal–10-100-75-75-p-56-iso8859-1
–> 0 255 some 0 27 10 2 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal–10-100-75-75-p-56-iso8859-1
–> 0 255 some 0 29 10 2 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal–10-72-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1
–> 0 255 some 0 29 10 2 -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal–10-72-100-100-p-0-iso8859-1

Anyway, problem solved.

Cheers!

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This is again an issue on Ubuntu 14.10. I have tried the previous fix as well, but as Luis indicated xfs has been removed. In addition changing the rootrc and adding

did not resolve the issue.

The result of the xlsfonts command,

is

xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi are both installed and up to date.