Subject: Re: Frequent Warning messages using gv
From: Brian Inglis <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 21:45:17 -0600
List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports <cygwin.cygwin.com>

On Sat, 8 Oct 2022 13:09:47 -0400, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 10/8/2022 9:01 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
>> 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?

> I could go either way on this. On the one hand, gv is a postscript
> viewer and has no control over what fonts it might be asked to
> display.  On the other hand, gv is intended to be run under X11, so
> maybe it should require the most basic X11 fonts.

gv requires ghostscript which requires ghostscript-fonts-other and 
urw-base35-fonts which should provide a fallback from Helvetica to Nimbus.
Perhaps for older apps and documents urw-base35-fonts-legacy could or 
should (also) be included?
Could that solve the problem, or would it still require 
xorg-x11-fonts-dpi{75,100)?

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