X Server 1.19.6-2 , xset does not add ghostscript fonts for xfig

[Ken Brown]

On 3/19/2018 9:02 PM, Andrew P Paplinski via cygwin wrote:
> Dear Cygwin X,
> 
> I am running X Server 1.19.6-2 built 2018-03-12
> 
> I have the following error:
> 
> $ xset fp+ /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/
> xset:Â  bad font path element (#2), possible causes are:
>  Â Â Â  Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>  Â Â Â  Directory missing fonts.dir
>  Â Â Â  Incorrect font server address or syntax
> 
> The font directory does exist:
> 
> app@MU00108269 /usr/share/ghostscript
> $ ls -l
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 app Domain Users 0 Mar 9 10:02 9.22
> drwxr-xr-x+ 1 app Domain Users 0 Mar 9 10:02 fonts
> 
> Also
> 
> $ xset q
>  Â Font Path:
>  Â  catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,built-ins
> 
> Without  ghostscript fonts  xfig  does not get the proper fonts.

The 35 core postscript fonts are now in /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35. 
But I'm not sure what you have to do to make xfig find them.

Ken

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