Fixing Mathematica Fonts in Windows

You may receive the following error upon evoking Mathematica program:

xset:  bad font path element (#38), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax
xset:  bad font path element (#38), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax
assertion `GenericUnicodeFont != 0' at MathEditFont.c:43 failed
assertion `GenericUnicodeFont != 0' at MathEditFont.c:43 failed
assertion `GenericUnicodeFont != 0' at MathEditFont.c:43 failed

You would need to correct the problem before you can run Mathematica. To correct the problem, please follow the steps below (assuming that you have NCD's PC-Xware installed on your PC running Windows):

- Download and install necessary fonts to a specified directory on your local machine. The fonts may be found on the following link:

pcfwin.zip

Make sure you remember the location in which you downloaded the PCF.zip file to.

- Create a directory in the pcxware sub-folder (sub-directory) (Program Files → ncdsoft → pcxware ). You may call it whatever you want. In this example, I named this folder “math”.

- Unzip (expand) the zipped files to the “math” directory. (you would need an unzip program such as winrar program) Make sure all of the *.pcf files in the expanded PCF folder are moved out to the “math” folder. You may delete empty folders that are created during the file expansion (unzip).

- The next step is to set the correct font path in PCX-ware configuation to point to the “math” folder containing the downloaded pcf files you've just created above. To do this, click on PCX-ware icon in the system tray in your toolbar. Then select “Configure PC-Xware”. A configuration panel like one shown in Figure 1 should pop up. In the “Defaut” window of “Font Path” group in the Configuation panel, append to the existing string the following entries: mswin, math, where “math” is the name of the directory created in Step 1

- Make sure you click on the “Apply” button and then the “OK” button to complete the configuration process

- Click on the icon in the system tray to select “Reset X-server” menu to refresh the settings. You don't need to reboot you Window session.