From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25337 invoked by alias); 5 Nov 2015 13:56:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 25329 invoked by uid 89); 5 Nov 2015 13:56:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: out1-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 13:56:41 +0000 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABA021BF7 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 08:56:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 05 Nov 2015 08:56:39 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host86-141-128-203.range86-141.btcentralplus.com [86.141.128.203]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3C057C016F1 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2015 08:56:39 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: xfig-3.2.5c-2.x86_64 crashes on save as or export on windows 10 To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <56326F58.4090105@chalmers.se> <5634F088.2050904@dronecode.org.uk> <1446445069.10444.15.camel@cygwin.com> From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <563B6015.9040209@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 13:56:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1446445069.10444.15.camel@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2015-11/txt/msg00112.txt.bz2 On 02/11/2015 06:17, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > 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. I agree. It's just a workaround, which also serves to confirm that the issue is font related, until the steps you outline can be taken. >> 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). -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- 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