Re: fonts in Cygwin

[Klaus Kassner <Klaus dot Kassner at physik dot uni-magdeburg dot de>]

Michael Denk wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Klaus Kassner wrote:
>
>
> > I do get most fonts correctly, including, incidentally, the normal
> > Helvetica.  But some of the fonts are not there, in particular
> > Helvetica-Narrow.
>
>  Ah, now I see your problem. Doesn't work for me either with
> Helvetica-Narrow.
>
>
> > So I don't get Helvetica-Narrow, nor, I believe ZapfChancery.  In any
> > case there are several fonts missing, including Helvetica-Narrow.  Are
> > there people out there who have them in their default cygwin
> > installation?
>
>  I did some research: The Postscript fonts that Ghostscript uses aren't
> normally available to X programs, e.g. Xfig. This causes the error
> messages about missing fonts you mentioned.
>  You mentioned the Debian package gsfonts-x11. This package solves the
> above problem by telling X of the existence of the Ghostscript fonts. I'm
> currently working on a similar solution for Cygwin---stay tuned.

Sure, I will :-).  I am very interested in getting this to work, since I 
mostly use Helvetica Narrow in my slides.  I have tried to find out 
where these fonts are on my work computer, where everything is available 
under ubuntu, but I have not yet fully figured out how to use them on 
other computers.  It seems that Helvetica Narrow is actually some Nimbus 
Sans font and there is a file /etc/X11/fonts/Type1/gsfonts-x11.alias 
containing the mapping.  So maybe this is part of the way to tell X of 
the existence of the Ghostscript fonts, but I doubt it is the complete 
picture.


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