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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 08:51:28 +1000
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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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A/Prof. Andrew P Paplinski
http://users.monash.edu/~app


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