In message <20010522040434.182301E4CA@thoreau.thistledown.com.au>, Simon Burge 
writes:
>Steve Bellovin wrote:
>
>
>Just a rough stab in the dark - all my font directories have a
>fonts.alias file as well as a fonts.dir.  Some of the fonts.alias
>files contain just a single line
>
>	FILE_NAMES_ALIASES
>

Hmm...  The two other font files listed in my X config file that fail 
to initialize are also missing fonts.alias.  And I was able to add the 
Cyrillic font, which does have one.   But -- CID (whatever that is) 
doesn't have one, and it's loaded.  None of my font directories have 
such a simple fonts.alias file; creating that one didn't help.  But 
this is certainly a path worth investigating.  Tnx.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb