Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 242274
xfig fonts error when input text
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:06 EST
Description of problem: xfig can't find fonts when input text Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.2.5-1.fc7 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a new xfig file 2. Choose text tool 3. Click to input text Actual results: The following error message pops up: "Can't find -*-times-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-*, using 6x13" Expected results: Should be able to input text Additional info: This happens for almost all fonts. Remove xfig package and install the old FC6 xfig package (version 3.2.4-21.1) and there is no such problem. The screen shot of the error message is attached.
Created attachment 156001 [details] Screen shot of the xfig error message
I can confirm this bug. It makes xfig-3.2.5-1.fc7 unusable; it will not read old .fig files that contain any of the "missing" fonts, which is almost all as mentioned above. Not only does xfig 3.2.4 work, but also 3.2.5_alpha5 (compiled from source). The problem seems to be in the latest 3.2.5 source. The problem sounds like Debian bug #366948, although the resolution of that bug report does not seem to match the problem in Fedora.
I traced the problem to the scalablefonts resource; it was off by default in earlier versions, but now the default is on. If you start xfig like this: xfig -noscalablefonts or if you add the X11 resource Fig.scalablefonts: false to either /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Fig or to ~/.Xresources, you get back to the correct behavior. One possible fix would be to add this to the Fig.ad file in the source. However, it is possible that there is some obscure xorg font package I have not installed which would fix this problem. If so, xfig should be made dependent on it; without this workaround, xfig is unusable.
Hi, I'm a new co-maintainer for xfig, this is a duplicate of bug 56490, closing as such. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56490 ***