Bug 682 - Xprt doesn't start because of spaces in a font name
Summary: Xprt doesn't start because of spaces in a font name
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: xprint
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Fonts: Other (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: high major
Assignee: Roland Mainz
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Reported: 2004-05-26 18:09 UTC by Sebastien
Modified: 2011-09-13 12:26 UTC (History)
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Description Sebastien 2004-05-26 18:09:45 UTC 
I encountered a big problem which take me a few hours to understand. I 
downloaded Xprt 009 RPM (I also compiled from SRC RPM but I have some 
segmentation faults after). I'm using SUSE Linux 9.1, XFree 4.3.99 and Mozilla 
1.6 (xprint enabled).

When I launch Xprt with
Xprt -fp (etc),/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype,(etc) :10
I get a error message :

failed to set default font path 
'PRINTER:(...),/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype,(...)'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

So, I tried to find how to make it work, and I found the problem came from 
the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype font path. When I remove it, Xprt 
launches correcty (but I can't print any web pages under Mozilla which contains 
truetype fonts).

Then I analyzed the path content : only pure truetype fonts. I was thinking 
truetype support was broken in 009 but the download page said truetype is 
supported. So I created a new directory and put some truetype fonts on it, made 
fonts.dir and fonts.scale, and added this new font path in Xprt. It worked !

In my original truetype font path I have about 1200 ttf files. After analysis, 
I found the origin of the problem : only ONE font which has blank spaces in is 
file name ! The font name is "It wasn't me.ttf" included in a free truetype 
font package called free-ttf-fonts.

Removing this font, rebuild fonts.dir and fonts.scale, and it's possible to 
launch Xprt with the correct font path.
Comment 1 Roland Mainz 2004-05-26 18:14:35 UTC 
Sebastien wrote:
> In my original truetype font path I have about 1200 ttf files. After analysis, 
> I found the origin of the problem : only ONE font which has blank spaces in is 
> file name ! The font name is "It wasn't me.ttf" included in a free truetype 
> font package called free-ttf-fonts.

I guess the old X11R6.6-based tree isn't able to deal with such problems.

Egbert:
What will the current Xorg trunk do ? Will the font path element be removed
because one font is broken or will the broken font name simply be ignored ?
Comment 2 Sérgio M. Basto 2004-08-03 14:29:18 UTC 
After install xorg from current cvs 
I had this:

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

xfs doesn't start, I work arround not using xfs like this:
        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
#       FontPath     "unix/:7100"

I upgrade to freetype-2.1.7 but don't resolve the problem.

how you rebuild fonts.dir and fonts.scale ?

and this not happened one week ago, simple after make world make install xfs
stop to working even with #define BuildFreeType       NO
To disable support for TrueType fonts, uncomment these.
Comment 3 Corbin Simpson 2011-09-13 12:26:05 UTC 
Closing WONTFIX because nobody cares about Xprint. Reopen if you plan to address this bug.

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