Re: Mathematica / MacOSX / XDarwin fonts problem
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- Subject: [mg70989] Re: Mathematica / MacOSX / XDarwin fonts problem
- From: guy.verhofstadt at gmail.com
- Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 04:07:58 -0500 (EST)
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Thanks! That did it! ragfield wrote: > guy.verhofstadt at gmail.com wrote: > > I am running MacOSX on my MacBook, and would like to run remotely > > Mathematica 5.2. I can launch it to my XDarwin server running locally, > > but there are fonts issues. > > > > I do not have much access to the machine running Mathematica, the only > > things I can change are the options I run Mathematica with on the > > command line. On the other hand, I know that the fonts are installed on > > the machine running Mathematica, since I can use it properly when I am > > at the console (ie when not run remotely). I have full access on the > > client side. > > > > I hear there are a few methods to solve this (use the fonts on the > > machine running mathematica, or install the fonts on my client > > computer) > > > I assume from your question that the remote machine is running some > sort of Unix platform and it has the X11 version of Mathematica > installed, is this correct? If so, the problem is fairly > straightforward to fix. Copy the BDF fonts from the remote machine at > $InstallationDirectory/FrontEnd/SystemFiles/Fonts/X/BDF to somewhere on > your local machine. Launch the X11 server on your MacBook if you > haven't already done so. Execute the following commands on your > MacBook in the Terminal: > > xset fp+ /path/to/fonts/BDF > xset fp rehash > > Then launch Mathematica on the remote Unix machine. I use this setup > on my Mac without problems. You will need to rerun the 'xset' commands > each time you restart the X11 server on your MacBook, so it may be > useful to keep this in some sort of script or resource file. > > -Rob