Hi, I am currently installing a new 64bits distribution of cygwin and an UBUNTU 16.04 in another machine. In both cases xfig does not find the ghostscript fonts and all the texts in the drawings appear with the same default font, making the application practically useless. The reason is the same: the X server is not aware of the ghostscript fonts, as it can be checked with xfontsel, in spite of the fact that the ghostscript package was installed. I looked into a frozen 32 bit cygwin distribution running in WXP. In /etc/X11/fontpath.d/ a symlink pointing to the directory that contains the gs-fonts is missing: xorg-x11-fonts-urw -> /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts
Setting the symlink solved the problem. I think that this bug could be related to the ghostscript fonts being installed before the X server. Solving the problem with ubuntu was not so easy because of the way that ubuntu uses for handling the fonts. What I did was to include the path to locate the ghostscript fonts in the fontpath, which in ubuntu 16 is: /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts That can be done with xset (each time) or permanently by putting a configuration file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d. That is not enough, one has also to put inside the gsfonts directory a fontmap file. I stole the files fonts.dir and fonts.scale from the cygwin distribution and everything was OK. I hope that this comment could be usefull, RM -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
