My experience is that you want 100dpi fonts for Stata to work OK - and
yes, Stata works with Xorg.
A happy Fedora/SUSE user,
Henrik
Anders Alexandersson wrote:
> Does Stata(GUI) for Linux depend on the X server being XFree86, as
> opposed to Xorg? That's now my best guess but my Linux skills are
> limited, and I have not been able to solve the problem I reported:
>
>>>The problem is that all the fonts in Stata look ugly when I use
>>>SimplyMepis 3.4.3. The fonts look great when I use another
>>>application, e.g., OpenOffice Writer or Firefox.
>>>Also, Stata often crashes with a GTK error message when I try to
>>>change the preferences in an attempt to fix the problem. Sometimes
>>>this is the error message when Stata crashes:
>
> Orvalho Joaquim Augusto (a.k.a "Caveman") <[email protected]> replied:
>>I used once Mandriva 2005 and had something like that. It disappeared
>>when I installed gtk-devel packages.
>>
>>By the way which gnome do you use? If you dont have gnome... Consider an
>>gnome installation.
>
> SimplyMepis uses KDE, not Gnome, but that should not matter. I
> installed all gdk and gtk packages that seemed reasonable (e.g.,
> libgtk2.0-dev) and restarted the computer but the problem remained.
> Reinstalling Stata after updated packages also did not help.
>
>
> Chinh Nguyen [email protected] replied:
>
>>My guess is that your Unix distribution did not install the X11 bitmap fonts
>>by default. Stata requires X11 font version of Times and Helvetica to
>>function properly.
>>
>>For example, on my Fedora Core 1 Linux box, my X11 bitmap fonts are stored
>>in:
>>
>>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/
>>
>>In /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, there are tim* and helv* font files.
>
> I went to KDE Control Center -> System Administration -> Font
> Installer and could see tim* and helv* font files in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi. I'm not sure if that's enough of a
> check.
>
>
> I asked at the Mepis forum http://www.mepis.org/node/9149 but did not
> get a reply, hopefully because few posters there use Stata. The
> largest changes from version 3.3.1 to 3.4.3 of SimplyMepis are: KDE
> 3.4 replaced KDE 3.3, XOrg replaced Xfree86, and the repository
> "testing" (etch) replaced "unstable" (sid). I then upgraded both
> distributions to KDE 3.5.1. The Stata(GUI) problem remained: still
> ugly fonts in SimplyMepis 3.4.3 and nice fonts in SimplyMepis 3.3.
>
> The only Debian book I have is Martin Krafft's (2005) Debian System:
> Concepts on Techniques. On page 97 he mentions that the Xfree86 server
> includes a font server. The Stata manual [GSU] B.2 mentions that
> Stata(GUI) requires the X Windows libraries. But does Stata(GUI)
> require Xfree86 as opposed to XOrg? That would explain the Stata(GUI)
> font problem in SimplyMepis 3.4.3. That would also be a bigger problem
> than originally reported, because Linux is moving away from using
> XFree86 to using XOrg.
>
> Anders Alexandersson
> [email protected]
>
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