Re: Another not quite Balsa question

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 2003.01.09 16:18 Laurent Duperval wrote:
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> So now I'm trying to print a message. I get errors saying that 
> two fonts (Helvetica, both of them) don't exist. I look at my 
> font list and indeed, they don't show up. So I take a look at 
> the Fonts tab of the Print dialog and none of the Postscript 
> fonts are there. I imported my Windows fonts and restarted X. 
> Now, the dialog shows Arial fonts so I try to use that instead. 
> But I still can't print.
> 
> I'm on Mandrake 9.0 (I'm running Balsa 2.0.5) and the Mandrake 
> font chooser shows the Arial and the helvetica fonts correctly. 
> So it's something else.

Balsa uses libgnomeprint for its print tool, and  
gnome_font_list() to find out which fonts libgnomeprint knows 
about.  Perhaps there's some way to synchronize the database that 
gnome_font_list() uses with the rest of the world.