Re: fonts in Cygwin

[Klaus Kassner <Klaus dot Kassner at physik dot uni-magdeburg dot de>]

Michael Denk wrote (schrieb, a écrit):
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Klaus Kassner wrote:
>
>
> > I have xfig installed under cygwin.  The program runs fine, but if I try
> > to input text at size 30 in font Helvetica (which I often do for
> > transparencies), then it does not find the fonts and displays the text
> > as an ugly 12pt times roman.
>
>  WJFFM. I have installed all font packages for the X Server, though. I'm
> guessing the fonts you are lacking are in the package xorg-x11-fnts. You
> can find it under the category X11 in the Cygwin setup program. If
> installing this package doesn't help try installing the other font
> packages as well.

I looked at my installation.  I have the xorg-x11-fnts (and I believe 
all other font packages), and reinstalling them did not change things. 
However, I noted that I did not completely realize the nature of the 
problem: I do get most fonts correctly, including, incidentally, the 
normal Helvetica.  But some of the fonts are not there, in particular 
Helvetica-Narrow.  This was just the first font problem I noticed, since 
Helvetica-Narrow is the font I most often use in transparencies, and I 
had taken some xfig-generated transparencies from my work computer to my 
home computer to modify them, which I could not do for lack of the font. 
 I then generalized the problem incorrectly, assuming that *all* larger 
fonts were missing, probably, because xfig does not replace a missing 
font by a similar one but just by Times-Roman, size 12.

So I don't get Helvetica-Narrow, nor, I believe ZapfChancery.  In any 
case there are several fonts missing, including Helvetica-Narrow.  Are 
there people out there who have them in their default cygwin installation?

Now I'm asking myself, whether the font files are different on different 
linux systems.  Since I have fonts in the same directories on my work 
computer (running under linux) as under cygwin on my home computer, and 
they seem to have the same names (I'll have to verify that in detail), I 
wonder whether the problem could be simply solved by copying the missing 
font files by hand from my work computer to my home computer...

--
Klaus Kassner


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