* Re: urw-base35-fonts - xmgrace issue
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2018-03-12 17:09 ` xmgrace fails, cannot find base type1 fonts Hunter, Kendall
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From: Ken Brown @ 2018-03-10 2:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin; +Cc: Hunter, Kendall
On 3/9/2018 5:00 PM, Hunter, Kendall wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> I apologize if sending you this email directly is inappropriate; I
Questions about Cygwin packages should always be sent to the Cygwin
mailing list, not to individual maintainers. Thanks.
> believe I've found an issue in Cygwin associated with the
> urw-base35-fonts package and I've found an email suggesting that you are
> the maintainer.
>
> I found the same problem as mentioned in this post
> <https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-01/msg00135.html>: xmgrace fails on
> cygwin64.
>
> Some detail: xmgrace uses the type 1 fonts in
> /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts. It appears to access them using a font
> mapping contained in one of its configuration files, named appropriately
> enough, FontDataBase. It contains this:
>
> 14
> Times-Roman            Times-Roman            n021003l.pfb
> Times-Italic           Times-Italic           n021023l.pfb
> Times-Bold             Times-Bold             n021004l.pfb
> Times-BoldItalic       Times-BoldItalic       n021024l.pfb
> Helvetica              Helvetica              n019003l.pfb
> Helvetica-Oblique      Helvetica-Oblique      n019023l.pfb
> Helvetica-Bold         Helvetica-Bold         n019004l.pfb
> Helvetica-BoldOblique  Helvetica-BoldOblique  n019024l.pfb
> Courier                Courier                n022003l.pfb
> Courier-Oblique        Courier-Oblique        n022023l.pfb
> Courier-Bold           Courier-Bold           n022004l.pfb
> Courier-BoldOblique    Courier-BoldOblique    n022024l.pfb
> Symbol                 Symbol                 s050000l.pfb
> ZapfDingbats           ZapfDingbats           d050000l.pfb
>
> These font files - the files listed in the last column of this file -
> seem to belong in the urw-base35-fonts package, indeed this package
> search
> <https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Furw-base35-fonts%2Furw-base35-fonts-20170801-2&grep=n021003l>
> finds them there. However they aren't there anymore. I'm guessing they
> have been renamed? Does this sound correct? Using find to look for the
> files, I can't find them anywhere...
Those type 1 fonts are now in the following files in
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/:
NimbusRoman-Regular.t1
NimbusRoman-Italic.t1
NimbusRoman-Bold.t1
NimbusRoman-BoldItalic.t1
NimbusSans-Regular.t1
NimbusSans-Italic.t1
NimbusSans-Bold.t1
NimbusSans-BoldItalic.t1
NimbusMonoPS-Regular.t1
NimbusMonoPS-Italic.t1
NimbusMonoPS-Bold.t1
NimbusMonoPS-BoldItalic.t1
StandardSymbolsPS.t1
D050000L.t1
Ken
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* xmgrace fails, cannot find base type1 fonts
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2018-03-10 2:37 ` urw-base35-fonts - xmgrace issue Ken Brown
@ 2018-03-12 17:09 ` Hunter, Kendall
2018-03-12 18:55 ` Brian Inglis
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From: Hunter, Kendall @ 2018-03-12 17:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Hello,
I am experiencing the same problem mentioned in this post<https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-01/msg00135.html>: xmgrace fails on cygwin64. It simply doesn't start, even if GRACE_HOME is properly set to /usr/share/grace. I believe I've found a fix for this issue; it is associated with recent changes that have occurred in the urw-base35-fonts package.
In detail: xmgrace as currently built tries to use the type 1 fonts in /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts. It appears (?) to catalog them using a font mapping contained in one of its configuration files, named appropriately enough, FontDataBase, which sits in /usr/share/grace/fonts. It contains this:
14
Times-Roman Times-Roman n021003l.pfb
Times-Italic Times-Italic n021023l.pfb
Times-Bold Times-Bold n021004l.pfb
Times-BoldItalic Times-BoldItalic n021024l.pfb
Helvetica Helvetica n019003l.pfb
Helvetica-Oblique Helvetica-Oblique n019023l.pfb
Helvetica-Bold Helvetica-Bold n019004l.pfb
Helvetica-BoldOblique Helvetica-BoldOblique n019024l.pfb
Courier Courier n022003l.pfb
Courier-Oblique Courier-Oblique n022023l.pfb
Courier-Bold Courier-Bold n022004l.pfb
Courier-BoldOblique Courier-BoldOblique n022024l.pfb
Symbol Symbol s050000l.pfb
ZapfDingbats ZapfDingbats d050000l.pfb
The font files - the files listed in the rightmost column of this file - seem to belong in the urw-base35-fonts package, indeed this package search<https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Furw-base35-fonts%2Furw-base35-fonts-20170801-2&grep=n021003l> finds them there. However they aren't there anymore. They have been renamed and are now in /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/ under the following names (thanks to Ken Brown):
NimbusRoman-Regular.t1
NimbusRoman-Italic.t1
NimbusRoman-Bold.t1
NimbusRoman-BoldItalic.t1
NimbusSans-Regular.t1
NimbusSans-Italic.t1
NimbusSans-Bold.t1
NimbusSans-BoldItalic.t1
NimbusMonoPS-Regular.t1
NimbusMonoPS-Italic.t1
NimbusMonoPS-Bold.t1
NimbusMonoPS-BoldItalic.t1
StandardSymbolsPS.t1
D050000L.t1
I tried changing the FontDataBase file to list these names instead, but that had no effect. So I:
* Removed the old symbolic link /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1, which pointed to /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts.
* Created a new one that pointed to /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35.
* Within urw-base35, I symlinked each old name to the new name (e.g. n021003l.pfb -> NimbusRoman-Regular.t1, and so on for all 14 fonts).
After doing this, xmgrace fired up no problem. So the package could be rebuilt with awareness of the new font location and names, and a fix for now is to simply relink its font directory and link these names as above.
Best
Kendall Hunter
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* Re: xmgrace fails, cannot find base type1 fonts
2018-03-12 17:09 ` xmgrace fails, cannot find base type1 fonts Hunter, Kendall
@ 2018-03-12 18:55 ` Brian Inglis
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From: Brian Inglis @ 2018-03-12 18:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On 2018-03-12 10:11, Hunter, Kendall wrote:
> I am experiencing the same problem mentioned in this post<https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-01/msg00135.html>: xmgrace fails on cygwin64. It simply doesn't start, even if GRACE_HOME is properly set to /usr/share/grace. I believe I've found a fix for this issue; it is associated with recent changes that have occurred in the urw-base35-fonts package.
>
> In detail: xmgrace as currently built tries to use the type 1 fonts in /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts. It appears (?) to catalog them using a font mapping contained in one of its configuration files, named appropriately enough, FontDataBase, which sits in /usr/share/grace/fonts. It contains this:
>
> 14
> Times-Roman Times-Roman n021003l.pfb
> Times-Italic Times-Italic n021023l.pfb
> Times-Bold Times-Bold n021004l.pfb
> Times-BoldItalic Times-BoldItalic n021024l.pfb
> Helvetica Helvetica n019003l.pfb
> Helvetica-Oblique Helvetica-Oblique n019023l.pfb
> Helvetica-Bold Helvetica-Bold n019004l.pfb
> Helvetica-BoldOblique Helvetica-BoldOblique n019024l.pfb
> Courier Courier n022003l.pfb
> Courier-Oblique Courier-Oblique n022023l.pfb
> Courier-Bold Courier-Bold n022004l.pfb
> Courier-BoldOblique Courier-BoldOblique n022024l.pfb
> Symbol Symbol s050000l.pfb
> ZapfDingbats ZapfDingbats d050000l.pfb
>
> The font files - the files listed in the rightmost column of this file - seem to belong in the urw-base35-fonts package, indeed this package search<https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Furw-base35-fonts%2Furw-base35-fonts-20170801-2&grep=n021003l> finds them there. However they aren't there anymore. They have been renamed and are now in /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/ under the following names (thanks to Ken Brown):
>
> NimbusRoman-Regular.t1
> NimbusRoman-Italic.t1
> NimbusRoman-Bold.t1
> NimbusRoman-BoldItalic.t1
> NimbusSans-Regular.t1
> NimbusSans-Italic.t1
> NimbusSans-Bold.t1
> NimbusSans-BoldItalic.t1
> NimbusMonoPS-Regular.t1
> NimbusMonoPS-Italic.t1
> NimbusMonoPS-Bold.t1
> NimbusMonoPS-BoldItalic.t1
> StandardSymbolsPS.t1
> D050000L.t1
>
> I tried changing the FontDataBase file to list these names instead, but that had no effect. So I:
>
> * Removed the old symbolic link /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1, which pointed to /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts.
> * Created a new one that pointed to /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35.
> * Within urw-base35, I symlinked each old name to the new name (e.g. n021003l.pfb -> NimbusRoman-Regular.t1, and so on for all 14 fonts).
>
> After doing this, xmgrace fired up no problem. So the package could be rebuilt with awareness of the new font location and names, and a fix for now is to simply relink its font directory and link these names as above.
Grace project considers it a downstream distro issue:
http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3285
Detailed analysis, workarounds, and patches for Fedora are at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1502175
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