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

[Ken Brown]

On 3/19/2018 10:44 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> 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 Â  Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>> Â Â Â Â  Directory missing fonts.dir
>> Â 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 Â Font Path:
>> Â 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.

I just looked at Fedora's xfig packaging 
(https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xfig.git), and the two most 
recent commits fix issues with the urw fonts.  So maybe Cygwin's xfig 
needs something similar.

Ken


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