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Anyone else have nekoware's Xfig (3.2.5-alpha5) working 'with' fonts?

It just says it "Can't find Times-Roman-13, using fixed" Or "Can't find xyzfontname-##, using 6x13" 'fixed' or '6x13' come from the Fig app-defaults file.. as a default font that is used. 6x13 does work, I am able to get smaller sized fonts versus the large 'fixed' one if I had that hardset in the Fig app-defaults file.

I ran strace on xfig.. nothing helpful.
xset -q shows a bunch of FONTPATH locations that exist
I can run:
xfontsel and I believe I can show lots of fonts and settings. Temes and Helvetica, etc..
I can run
xlsfonts |grep times and find lots of fonts.. adobe and urw- versions of times.. as well as the last few:
[octane]:~ $ xlsfonts | grep times |tail -10
-urw-times-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-u
-urw-times-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1251
times-bold
times-bold
times-bolditalic
times-bolditalic
times-italic
times-italic
times-roman
times-roman

I did have the fontserver turned off.. chkconfig had it off. So I enabled it in chkconfig and started fontserver manually... xfs is running. No change to Xfig though.

So I give up.. anyone else have Xfig working with fonts?

Hi there!

Never used Xfig myself but to give some ideas...

If you use XServer and Fontserver on the same machine, then there won't be much of a difference when starting the Fontserver since the fonts are not installed.

When fonts are missing you have 3 options:

1) Install the missing fonts (recommended)
--> https://archive.org/stream/xwindowsyste ... 8/mode/1up

Chapter 5, 5.3 Adding New Fonts

1.1) XServer without Fontserver

- After having installed the fonts, check with

# xset -q

that they are in your fontpath, as above in your post.

- Rehash the XServer with

# xset fp rehash

- Fire up Xfig

1.2) XServer with Fontserver

- After having installed the fonts, start up the Fontserver.

/usr/bin/X11/fs (or whatever)

- Check with

# fsinfo -server tcp/127.0.0.1:7000

that it is reachable, up and working.

- Add Fontserver to XServer

# xset fp+ tcp/127.0.0.1:7000 (change IP/hostname and/or port accordingly)

- Fire up Xfig

2) Alias the missing fonts to existing ones on your X Server
--> https://archive.org/stream/xwindowsyste ... 8/mode/1up

Chapter 5, 5.3.4.1 Aliasing

This will be tedious since you'll need to add every single missing font-alias by hand. And keep in mind that this is just a dirty workaround in detriment of usability.

2.1) XServer without Fontserver

- Rehash the XServer with

# xset fp rehash

- Fire up Xfig

2.2) See 1.2)

3) Give up


Enjoy

It's not a solution but I use "xfig -nosc" to avoid error messages.