Hi, Thanks for you help. The font path is: Font Path: /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/
The font packages are: $ dpkg -l xfonts-\* | grep '^[ih]' ii xfonts-100dpi 1.0.0-2 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-75dpi 1.0.0-2 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-base 1.0.0-3 standard fonts for X ii xfonts-encodings 1.0.0-3 Encodings for X.Org fonts ii xfonts-konsole 3.4.3-3 fonts used by the KDE's Konsole ii xfonts-scalable 1.0.0-4 scalable fonts for X ii xfonts-utils 1.0.0-4 X Window System font utility programs $ dpkg -l gsfonts\* | grep '^[ih]' ii gsfonts 8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpreter(s) ii gsfonts-other 6.0-3 Additional fonts for the ghostscript interpr ii gsfonts-x11 0.19 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11 Thank you, Bruce On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:18:57PM +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > On Fri, 12 May 2006, Bruce MacDonald wrote: > > > Package: xfig > > Version: 1:3.2.5-alpha5-4 > > Severity: grave > > Justification: renders package unusable > > > > When I start xfig it complains like this: > > > > Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion > > Warning: Cannot convert string > > "-*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*--16-*" > > to type FontSet > > Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion > > Warning: Cannot convert string > > "-*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-*-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > > to type FontSet > > Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion > > Warning: Cannot convert string > > "-*-times-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-*-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > > to type FontSet > > > > then during editing if I select a font (all the fonts I tried), xfig > > complains when I click somewhere to start entering text: > > > > Can't find -*-times-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-*, using 6x13 > > > > or if I select say helvetica: > > > > Can't find -*-times-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-*, using 6x13 > > Can't find -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-*, using 6x13 > > > > and the courier:n > > > > Can't find -*-times-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-*, using 6x13 > > Can't find -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-*, using 6x13 > > Can't find -*-courier-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-*, using 6x13 > > > > So I can't do much with xfig. > > > I haven't used it for awhile so don't know when it broke, but it > > used to work. > > For me this seems to be a problem of your font environment. So I need > more information about your system. > > Could you please send me the "Font Path" from "xset q" output? > And than I need to know what founts you installed, so the output of > the following commands would help to find the center of the problem: > > dpkg -l xfonts-\* | grep '^[ih]' > dpkg -l gsfonts\* | grep '^[ih]' > > Tschoeeee > > Roland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]