[GRASS-user] trouble using .ttf fonts with d.font

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Tim Holland<timothyholland at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am having some trouble with d.font and getting it to use fonts other than
> the default options that are mentioned in the d.font manual
> http://grass.itc.it/grass64/manuals/html64_user/d.font.html
> http://grass.itc.it/grass64/manuals/html64_user/d.font.html .
>
> What I have tried:
>>d.font font=romant   #or other default font - italicc, gothgbt, etc
> this works fine, but the font selection is a bit limited.  So I wanted to
> try using other fonts from the library.
>
>>d.font font=Tahoma   #or Arial, Verdana, other options that are mentioned
> in /Users/usr/Library/GRASS/6.4/Modules/etc/fontcap
> this returns a long string of error messages:
>>The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality
> safely. You MUST exec().
>>Break on
> __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__()
> to debug.
>>The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality
> safely. You MUST exec().
>>Break on
> __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__()
> to debug.
>>ERROR eof from graphics driver.

See
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/377
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2009-April/050038.html
and
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html#SECDAEMONVSFRAMEWORKS

No solution yet, sorry...

Markus