<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br><br>Is that the output of xlsfonts -fn "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*" ?<br>My guess is that it's choking on the 12 and 10, respectively.<br><br>--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu<br><br>Thanks for your swift answer.<br><br>That seems the most likely explanation, but I am still baffled as to where the<br>10 and 12 come from. It has to be somewhere in the program, because<br>I don't use helvetica for anything.<br><br>It really doesn't make sense to specify sizes for a font that resides in font.scale anyway.<br><br>Pierre MacKay<br><br><br></div></body></html>