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

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

[Andrew P Paplinski via cygwin]

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:  bad font path element (#2), possible causes are:
     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
     Directory missing fonts.dir
     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
  Font Path:
   catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,built-ins

Without  ghostscript fonts  xfig  does not get the proper fonts.
Please help

Andrew

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

[Ken Brown]

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:  bad font path element (#2), possible causes are:
>      Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>      Directory missing fonts.dir
>      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
>   Font Path:
>    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.

Ken

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Re: 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:  bad font path element (#2), possible causes are:
>>      Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>>      Directory missing fonts.dir
>>      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
>>   Font Path:
>>    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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Re: X Server 1.19.6-2 , xset does not add ghostscript fonts for xfig

[Achim Gratz]

Ken Brown writes:
>> 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.

I might do that although these patches look extra hairy.  But, reading
the commit messages I start to wonder if it's not the URW font package
that needs fixing (there might still be a need to patch some things in
xfig)?  I'd not want to fl<y in some patches that don't actually fix the
problem, but just shove it further out.


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: X Server 1.19.6-2 , xset does not add ghostscript fonts for xfig

[Ken Brown]

On 3/20/2018 2:13 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>>> 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.
> 
> I might do that although these patches look extra hairy.  But, reading
> the commit messages I start to wonder if it's not the URW font package
> that needs fixing (there might still be a need to patch some things in
> xfig)?  I'd not want to fl<y in some patches that don't actually fix the
> problem, but just shove it further out.

What a mess!

There's a comment just yesterday at

   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551219#c8

suggesting that there will be some Fedora changes in the urw font 
package coming this week.  So let's wait for the dust to settle, and 
then I hope we can just copy whatever solution Fedora comes up with.

Ken

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

[Achim Gratz]

Ken Brown writes:
> What a mess!

Indeed.

> There's a comment just yesterday at
>
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551219#c8
>
> suggesting that there will be some Fedora changes in the urw font
> package coming this week.  So let's wait for the dust to settle, and
> then I hope we can just copy whatever solution Fedora comes up with.

That works for me.  :-)


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: X Server 1.19.6-2 , xset does not add ghostscript fonts for xfig

[Ken Brown]

On 3/22/2018 1:25 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> What a mess!
> 
> Indeed.
> 
>> There's a comment just yesterday at
>>
>>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551219#c8
>>
>> suggesting that there will be some Fedora changes in the urw font
>> package coming this week.  So let's wait for the dust to settle, and
>> then I hope we can just copy whatever solution Fedora comes up with.
> 
> That works for me.  :-)

Following Fedora 
(https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/urw-base35-fonts.git/commit/?id=f18d6d5b26d2eae4d7730b0b1137b4b54909d9fa), 
I've created and uploaded a new subpackage urw-base35-fonts-legacy that 
contains old versions of the fonts.  These should work with xfig.

The fonts are in /usr/share/X11/fonts/urw-fonts, with a symlink in 
/etc/X11/fontpath.d/.

I did some limited testing, and xfig seems to find the fonts.  (I didn't 
call xset or do anything else special.)

Achim, if I'm right, you don't have to do anything with xfig except to 
add a dependency on urw-base35-fonts-legacy.

But someone more familiar with xfig than I am should test this.

Ken

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

[Andrew P Paplinski via cygwin]

On 17/04/2018 6:45 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 3/22/2018 1:25 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> Ken Brown writes:
>>> What a mess!
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>>> There's a comment just yesterday at
>>>
>>>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551219#c8
>>>
>>> suggesting that there will be some Fedora changes in the urw font
>>> package coming this week.  So let's wait for the dust to settle, and
>>> then I hope we can just copy whatever solution Fedora comes up with.
>>
>> That works for me.  :-)
>
> Following Fedora 
> (https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/urw-base35-fonts.git/commit/?id=f18d6d5b26d2eae4d7730b0b1137b4b54909d9fa), 
> I've created and uploaded a new subpackage urw-base35-fonts-legacy 
> that contains old versions of the fonts.  These should work with xfig.
>
> The fonts are in /usr/share/X11/fonts/urw-fonts, with a symlink in 
> /etc/X11/fontpath.d/.
>
> I did some limited testing, and xfig seems to find the fonts.  (I 
> didn't call xset or do anything else special.)
>
> Achim, if I'm right, you don't have to do anything with xfig except to 
> add a dependency on urw-base35-fonts-legacy.
>
> But someone more familiar with xfig than I am should test this.
>
> Ken

Thanks, Ken

Magic, magic and xfig works.
I have downloaded the urw-base35-fonts-legacy  (and urw-base35-fonts)  
fonts.
They are, as you said, in
/usr/share/X11/fonts/urw-fonts, with a symlink in /etc/X11/fontpath.d/
and the xfig picked them up automatically.

Thanks, again.

Andrew

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

[Achim Gratz]

Ken Brown writes:
> Achim, if I'm right, you don't have to do anything with xfig except to
> add a dependency on urw-base35-fonts-legacy.

OK, I'll check how I get this done.


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: X Server 1.19.6-2 , xset does not add ghostscript fonts for xfig

[Achim Gratz]

Achim Gratz writes:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> Achim, if I'm right, you don't have to do anything with xfig except to
>> add a dependency on urw-base35-fonts-legacy.
>
> OK, I'll check how I get this done.

Yaakov has added those requirements to the hint files, so they should
now be installed together with xfig/transfig.


Regards,
Achim.
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