X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Original-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: cygwin@cygwin.com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org 67C223858298 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=cs.umass.edu Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=cs.umass.edu Message-ID: Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 09:06:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.3.1 Subject: Re: Frequent Warning messages using gv To: Adam Dinwoodie , "cygwin@cygwin.com" References: Content-Language: en-US From: Eliot Moss In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: cygwin-bounces+archive-cygwin=delorie.com@cygwin.com Sender: "Cygwin" On 10/8/2022 8:57 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 at 06:46, 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*. > > I doubt it. I'm not familiar with gv, but this looks like you're > trying to process documents that incorporate Helvetica, in a way that > requires having the font files, without having the font files. > Helvetica is a trademark, and the font files are under copyright, so > no Cygwin package is going to be able to include the fonts or even > include substitutes with matching filenames. > > You *might* be able to add symlinks from the missing Helvetica files > to more readily available metric-identical alternatives you already > have access to, e.g. Arial, MS Sans Serif, or Liberation Sans. > Otherwise I suspect you need to either avoid processing files that > incorporate fonts you don't own, or buy copies of the relevant > Helvetica typefaces. Something I might try first is researching how fontconfig can allow you to set up substitutions. Cheers - Eliot Moss -- 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