I found out some more about this problem and have worked around it as a result. It seems related to gsfonts-x11, which seems to have some reports about similar problems. The problem I had with xfig not finding fonts goes away if I delete the alias lines in
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/fonts.alias that have aliases for the fonts that xfig can't find (eg all the adobe ones, but also others). The aliases are to gsfonts fonts I guess are created from /etc/X11/fonts/Type1/gsfonts-x11.alias. There is probably a better way to do this without removing gsfonts-x11. What I found was that the scalable version of the fonts such as adobe times could not be accessed (eg by xfd) and I think that is why xfig was unhappy about it. Something about the aliasing? Once the alias lines were removed, then xfd and xfig are happy with times fonts (and others) at sizes not specifically installed. Found this by comparing fonts.* files across machines. I ended up removing all the alias lines from the file above, except the urw to urw ones. xfig still does not have these fonts: -*-helvetica-medium-o-narrow--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-* -*-helvetica-bold-o-narrow--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-* -*-helvetica-medium-r-narrow--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-* -*-helvetica-bold-r-narrow--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-* -*-itc zapf chancery-medium-i-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-* -*-itc zapf dingbats-*-*-*--13-*-*-*-*-*-*-* I think because I don't have these fonts; where to get them from? They aren't that important anyway. Shall I cross report this to gsfonts-x11 or leave that to Roland? Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
