[scilab-Users] No text in plots / scicos

Soren Hansen srnhnsn at gmail.com
Tue Mar 3 15:43:55 CET 2009


On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Sylvestre Ledru
<sylvestre.ledru at scilab.org>wrote:

> Le mardi 03 mars 2009 à 13:37 +0100, Soren Hansen a écrit :
> > Hi
> >
> > I have installed Scilab-5.1 from source on a PC running Linux. When i
> > try plotting anything i get a plotting window without any text on the
> > axis etc. Same thing happens when I open Scicos palettes .. the text
> > is not visible.
> >
> > Do I need to specify a font-path, or is something else wrong.
> Depends on the distribution... but it is common that font packages are
> not installed by default with the JVM.
> You can install them (if you are running Mandriva, Yann could help you)
> or change the font in the Scilab menu.
>

Ok, thanks.

I found a solution. I am using Ubuntu 8.04 with the and I had installed both
Suns java environment and OpenJDK, but compiled Scilab with OpenJDK. When
rebuilding Scilab with Suns java I got the axis texts correct. Apparently I
am missing some fonts in OpenJDK

- Soren
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