Thank you. Installing these two packages has done the trick, at least for the several files that previously generated warning messages.
Sent via Outlook on my Asus ZenFone 8 ________________________________ From: Jon Turney <jon.tur...@dronecode.org.uk> Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2022 2:01:50 PM To: Fergus Daly <fergus...@outlook.com>; The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com> Subject: Re: Frequent Warning messages using gv On 05/10/2022 06:45, Fergus Daly wrote: > Whenever I use gv on a PostScript file as in > $ gv filename.ps > then a (usually) successful display is (almost invariably) accompanied by > Warning messages about font conversions. > It is not obvious what limitations or errors are affecting the displayed > output, if any, and I have got into the habit > of issuing the command with the qualifier > $ gv filename.ps 2> /dev/null > However: the Warning messages whilst occasionally very esoteric nearly always > include the form > Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-*-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-100-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct > Warning: Cannot convert string > "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct > Is there some additional fonts package or group of packages that I could > usefully incorporate into my Cygwin setup that > would reduce warnings when using gv? (And maybe improve the rendering of > outputs.) > My directory /usr/share/fonts/microsoft/ contains 120+ ttf links, though none > looking anything like helv*. Installing 'xorg-x11-fonts-dpi75' and/or 'xorg-x11-fonts-dpi100' will probably resolve these warnings. It's unclear to me if gv needs a dependency on more font packages or not, since the PS could be using any fonts? -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
