Re: font problem with xfig (solution)
On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 12:23 -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running etch, and I use xfig to create figures. When I call xfig
> from a command line I get the following error messages:
>
> marcelo@yggdrasill:~$ xfig
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,*--16-*" to type FontSet
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-*-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontSet
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Cannot convert string
> "-*-times-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-bold-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-*-r-*--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontSet
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
>
> and when I try to rescale text in a xfig figure, I get the following
> messages for example:
>
> Can't find -*-times-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-*, using 6x13
> Can't find -*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-*, using 6x13
> Can't find -*-times-medium-r-normal--22-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-*, using 6x13
>
> I have installed the xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi packages, but it
> seems that I have forgot something else. Any help will be very welcome.
Hi,
just for the records, the problem was I didn't have the gsfonts-x11
package installed. After installing it, fonts can be rescaled in xfig.
Thanks to Roland Rosenfeld, the Debian maintainer of xfig, who pointed
me to this solution.
cheers
Marcelo
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Marcelo Chiapparini
chiappa@oi.com.br
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