Bug 471751
| Summary: | Mathematica required fonts | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Paul Lutus <q2> | ||||
| Component: | xorg-x11-fonts | Assignee: | X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | fonts-bugs, nicolas.mailhot, xgl-maint | ||||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-11-15 19:58:22 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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It's been almost a decade fontconfig was introduced and every major GUI app migrated to it. Legacy core fonts support is not going away any time soon, but the associated fonts are *not* going to be installed by default anymore. Users of applications like Mathematica will just have to install them explicitelly. That, or ask their application upstream to use the *current* font backend, like pretty much everyone else. |
Created attachment 323695 [details] Small image of Mathematica warning dialog Description of problem: On the Fedora 10 preview release ISO (Fedora-10-Preview-i386-DVD.iso), two font RPMs are not included. The closest matches for the missing fonts are: xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch.rpm xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-9-100dpi-7.2-6.fc9.noarch.rpm Absent these fonts, Mathematica 5.0 will complain about missing fonts and will render text improperly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Install and run Fedora 10 preview release. Install and run Mathematica 5.0 (this likely affects other Mathematica versions as well). Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install and run Fedora 10 preview release. 2. Install and run Mathematica 5.0. Actual results: 1. Error message at Mathematica startup about missing fonts (see attachment). 2. Improperly rendered text within Mathematica. Expected results: No error messages, properly rendered text. Additional info: Mathematica tends to rely on system fonts for proper operation to a greater degree than most applications.