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M1 DESIGN MANAGER: Wind/U Error (188): Cannot load font set from specification: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-14-*


Record #2565

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  FPGA Core

Problem Title:
M1 DESIGN MANAGER:  Wind/U Error (188): Cannot load font set from
specification: -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-14-*



Problem Description:
Keywords: font, wind/u, SunOS, LC_TYPE, NLS, XNLSPATH, Openwindows, CDE, design
manager, dsgnmgr

Urgency: hot

General Description:

Invoking the M1 Design Manager or Dynatext document reader may
give the following error on SunOS systems and systems running
Openwindows or CDE:

  "Wind/U Error (188): Cannot load font set from specification: -adobe-helvetica
-medium-r-normal-*-14-*

This prevents the Design Manager from starting up
successfully.

Although this problem is not completely understood, it has
been found that several different actions may be tried to
make the problem go away.


KTM/KL


Solution 1:


Try setting the XNLSPATH to the location of the X11 NLS path location:

    Example:   setenv XNLSPATH /tools/X11R5/usr/lib/X11/nls




Solution 2:


If there is an LC_TYPE or LANG variable defined in your .cshrc
or setup file, try unsetting it:

   unsetenv LC_TYPE
   unsetenv LANG



Solution 3:


Try removing the .WindU directory in your home directory.




End of Record #2565

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