Re: [ft] FreeTypeRasterizeGlyph() ?

[n l]

Debian Etch is currently on
libcairo2  1.0.4-2
libfreetype6  2.2.1-2

Maybe I ought to forward these emails to libcairo2's debian package
maintainer, Dave Beckett?
What do you think?

And thanks for your help.

Nathan Lloyd


On 6/9/06, David Turner <address@hidden> wrote:
> n l a écrit :
> > Hi, I'm trying to figure out why, after debian etch's recent upgrade
> > to xorg 7, emacs menu and buffer fonts look bad. I noticed that every
> > time I start emacs, the following message gets appended a few times to
> > Xorg.0.log:
> >
> > Warning: FreeTypeRasteriseGlyph() returns an error,
> >        so the backend tries to set a white space.
> >
> This error message comes from Cairo, which version of this library
> are you using ? It might be worthwhile to recompile Cairo _after_
> having installed a recent version of FreeType on your system.
>
> Also, which version of FreeType do you have installed ?
>
> Let us know if this helps,
>
> Regards,
>
> - David Turner
> - The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)
>
> > My question is, what's causing this? Is it an emacs, freetype, or xorg
> > problem, or something else, and should I send a bug report to
> > somewhere on debian's lists?
> > I appreciate any help.
> >
> > Some background:
> > I already know about the change in the locations of fonts and my font
> > paths have been changed to
> >    FontPath        "unix/:7100"
> >    FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
> >    FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
> >    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
> >    FontPath        "/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype"
> >    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
> >    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
> >    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
> >    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/CID"
> >    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
> >    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
> >    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
> >    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
> >    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
> >    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"  ##
> >    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"  ##
> >    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" #
> >    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" #
> >    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"  ##
> >    FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"  ##
> >
> > If I comment out all the old /usr/lib/X11 entries, then emacs doesn't
> > find any fonts at all and outputs squares where letters ought to be.
> >
> > Also, I've reinstalled all the packages related to fontconfig and
> > freetype--to no avail.
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Nathan Lloyd
> >
> >
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