Hello everyone,<br><br>Hans thank you for your reply. I did what you suggested but unfortunately the problem is still there. I also reinstalled Pd-extended. The output from the terminal is provided below. It seems the Bitstream fonts were already installed.<br>
<br>Regards<br>Alex<br><br>sudo aptitude install ttf-bitstream-vera<br>Reading package lists... Done<br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state information... Done<br>Reading extended state information <br>
Initialising package states... Done<br>Building tag database... Done <br>No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.<br>0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.<br>Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.<br>
Writing extended state information... Done<br>Reading package lists... Done <br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state information... Done<br>Reading extended state information <br>Initialising package states... Done<br>
Building tag database... Done <br>alex@desktop:~$ <br><br>sudo aptitude install ttf-bitstream-vera<br>Reading package lists... Done<br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state information... Done<br>Reading extended state information <br>
Initialising package states... Done<br>Building tag database... Done <br>No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.<br>0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.<br>Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.<br>
Writing extended state information... Done<br>Reading package lists... Done <br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state information... Done<br>Reading extended state information <br>Initialising package states... Done<br>
Building tag database... Done <br>alex@desktop:~$ <br>alex@desktop:~$ apt-get install --reinstall x-ttcidfont-conf<br>E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)<br>E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?<br>
alex@desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall x-ttcidfont-conf<br>Reading package lists... Done<br>Building dependency tree <br>Reading state information... Done<br>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.<br>
Need to get 0B/20.1kB of archives.<br>After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.<br>Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y<br>Preconfiguring packages ...<br>(Reading database ... ^T124971 files and directories currently installed.)<br>
Preparing to replace x-ttcidfont-conf 27 (using .../x-ttcidfont-conf_27_all.deb) ...<br>Cleaning up font configuration of x-ttcidfont-conf...<br>Cleaning up category cmap..<br>Cleaning up category cid..<br>Cleaning up category truetype..<br>
Unpacking replacement x-ttcidfont-conf ...<br>Setting up x-ttcidfont-conf (27) ...<br>Updating font configuration of x-ttcidfont-conf...<br>Cleaning up category cmap..<br>Cleaning up category cid..<br>Cleaning up category truetype..<br>
Updating category truetype..<br>Updating category cid..<br>Updating category cmap..<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/5/4 Hans-Christoph Steiner <<a href="mailto:hans@eds.org">hans@eds.org</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><br></div><div>I'll bet it is having trouble finding the Bitstream Vera fonts. Start out by making sure they are installed:</div><div><br></div><div>sudo aptitude install ttf-bitstream-vera</div><div><br></div>
<div>Then try this:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2007-10/055576.html" target="_blank">http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2007-10/055576.html</a></div><div><br></div>
<div>.hc</div><br><div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><div>On May 4, 2008, at 10:06 PM, Alex Lucas wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Hello,<br><br> I've recently installed Pd Extended 0.40.3 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04. I seem to be having problems with the size of object boxes whereby the text doesn't seem to fit inside the bounds of the object. I'm using a screen resolution of 1440 x 900, when this is reduced to 1024 x 786 there is no problem. I've also installed Pd Vanilla 0.40-2 which seems to be fine regardless of the screen resolution. Please click on the link below for a screen shot.<br>
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