Bug 568559 - Grace is unable to find/map the Symbol font
Summary: Grace is unable to find/map the Symbol font
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grace
Version: 12
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: José Matos
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-02-26 01:08 UTC by Karl
Modified: 2010-04-28 01:18 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: grace-5.1.22-7.fc13
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-04-28 01:11:46 UTC
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Description Karl 2010-02-26 01:08:19 UTC
Description of problem:
Grace is unable to find the Symbol font

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.1.22

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter horizontal axis label as "2\xq\f{} (degrees)"
2. Click "Apply"
  
Actual results:
Axis says "2[oblique q] (degrees)"

Expected results:
Axis says "2[Greek letter theta] (degrees)"

Additional info:
Problem did not exist in Fedora 10, and is not solved by "yum install xorg-x11-fonts\*".

Comment 1 Pascal Viot 2010-03-01 18:02:14 UTC
The problem can be easily solved. The file /etc/grace/FontDataBase is slightly corrupted. In the last line of the file, two lines aer joined.
If you insert a <CR> after  URW-Palladio-L-Bold-Italic URW-Palladio-L-Bold-Italic p052024l.pfb, 
you create the line for Symbol and grace works again!

If the maintainer reads this mail, please correct the file in a updated package
Thank you!

Comment 2 José Matos 2010-03-01 19:04:24 UTC
Grr...

Thanks for the hint.

If at least there was a glimpse of grace 6 all this mess would be gone. :-(

Comment 3 Karl 2010-03-03 18:49:41 UTC
The line is actually the one following that:

As of reporting, this read,
"Symbol                  Symbol                  s050000l.pfbURW-Chancery-L-Medium-Italic URW-Chancery-L-Medium-Italic z003034l.pfb"

Should read,
"Symbol                  Symbol                  s050000l.pfb
URW-Chancery-L-Medium-Italic URW-Chancery-L-Medium-Italic z003034l.pfb"

That solved the problem.  Thank you!

Comment 4 José Matos 2010-04-08 19:09:35 UTC
This problem affects F-13 as well. I am trying to understand what goes wrong in the creation of the FontDataBase file.

Comment 5 José Matos 2010-04-08 19:19:18 UTC
OK, as far as I understand the problem it seems that the cure to bug 504413 is now the poison to this bug.

I will test a bit more before issuing updates.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-04-08 19:49:13 UTC
grace-5.1.22-7.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/grace-5.1.22-7.fc13

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-04-08 19:56:40 UTC
grace-5.1.22-7.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/grace-5.1.22-7.fc12

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2010-04-09 04:13:36 UTC
grace-5.1.22-7.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update grace'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/grace-5.1.22-7.fc13

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2010-04-10 10:26:14 UTC
grace-5.1.22-7.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update grace'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/grace-5.1.22-7.fc12

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2010-04-28 01:11:41 UTC
grace-5.1.22-7.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2010-04-28 01:17:55 UTC
grace-5.1.22-7.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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