xfig-3.2.5c-2.x86_64 crashes on save as or export on windows 10

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

On Sat, 2015-10-31 at 16:47 +0000, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 29/10/2015 19:11, Hans-Georg Scherneck wrote:
> > it crashes on x_86 (i.e. 32 bit version) too, even after re-installing
> > the xorg-server packages.
> > xfig won't show the export window before it crashes. What else can I do?
> > Any step-by-step procedure with xorg-server renewal?
> > Is there an issue with Athena widgets?
> 
> I'd suggest, as an alternative workaround, with the current server:
> 
> ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi 
> /etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:pri=40

I'm not sure we should recommend this.

> It seems that xfig requires the font '*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*' for 
> that dialog, but that is not one of the sizes provided by 
> xorg/font/adobe-*dpi (14 and 17 are the nearest), so we have to allow 
> this font to be scaled (or provide a scalable font which also matches 
> that XLFD)

Fedora carries the following patch (among others):

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xfig.git/tree/xfig-3.2.5-urwfonts.patch

We currently provide the URW fonts in ghostscript-fonts-std.  That
should be rebuilt to add a symlink in /etc/X11/fontpath.d, and xfig
rebuilt with that patch (and possibly others from that set as well).

--
Yaakov



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