Bug#813715: zoom-player: Unable to load font helvetica-medium

[Stephen Kitt]

On Sat, 6 Feb 2016 14:18:09 +0100, Stephen Kitt <skitt at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 17:42:31 +0100, Alexandre Detiste
> <alexandre.detiste at gmail.com> wrote:
> > While trying out zoom-player on an other PC;
> > I allways get it to complain about some missing fonts,
> > even after having installed all the same likely needed
> > '*ttf*' & '*font*' packages as installed on my main computer.
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > zoom /usr/share/games/zork/zork1.dat 
> > 
> > INTERPRETER PANIC - Unable to load font
> > -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-* or fall back to 8x13 (PC =
> > #ffffffff)  
> 
> The required fonts are in xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi (Adobe Helvetica)
> and xfonts-base (8x13). If you're running Zoom remotely, the fonts need to
> be installed on the X server. (I have the same problem running Zoom
> remotely, displaying on a Fedora system.)

Another solution seems to be to enable anti-aliasing, which causes Zoom to
use Xft rather than standard X fonts:

	cp /usr/share/zoom/zoomrc ~/.zoomrc
	sed -i "s/antialias no/antialias yes/g" ~/.zoomrc

Could you try that and see if it fixes things for you? Since the Debian
package builds with proper Xft support we could just enable that by
default...

Regards,

Stephen
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