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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>I'm pretty sure that this was discussed briefly, but cannot find it in the dev archives.<BR>
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Sometime recently (past couple months), I've ended up without any default font for GRASS in versions I compile, and have to set a font before I have any text with barscales, legends, and the like.<BR>
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The new TrueType font capabilities are great and much nicer than the old default stroke fonts, but we should have *something* set as a default font when GRASS starts up. This is a problem on Mac and Windows builds but may not be showing up on Linux builds. <BR>
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I can build something into the GUI's to set a default font on startup. But it seems that this should be done in init.sh so as not to depend on the GUI and, IMHO, would be even better as a GRASS variable that lives in .grassrc6--so that whatever is set as a default font during a user session stays there into future sessions.<BR>
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In any case, we need something so that people don't fire up GRASS and wonder why legends have no text.<BR>
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Michael<BR>
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