urw-base35-fonts - xmgrace issue
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Sat Mar 10 02:37:00 GMT 2018
On 3/9/2018 5:00 PM, Hunter, Kendall wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> I apologize if sending you this email directly is inappropriate; I
Questions about Cygwin packages should always be sent to the Cygwin
mailing list, not to individual maintainers. Thanks.
> believe I've found an issue in Cygwin associated with the
> urw-base35-fonts package and I've found an email suggesting that you are
> the maintainer.
>
> I found the same problem as mentioned in this post
> <https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-01/msg00135.html>: xmgrace fails on
> cygwin64.
>
> Some detail: xmgrace uses the type 1 fonts in
> /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts. It appears to access them using a font
> mapping contained in one of its configuration files, named appropriately
> enough, FontDataBase. It contains this:
>
> 14
> Times-Roman            Times-Roman            n021003l.pfb
> Times-Italic           Times-Italic           n021023l.pfb
> Times-Bold             Times-Bold             n021004l.pfb
> Times-BoldItalic       Times-BoldItalic       n021024l.pfb
> Helvetica              Helvetica              n019003l.pfb
> Helvetica-Oblique      Helvetica-Oblique      n019023l.pfb
> Helvetica-Bold         Helvetica-Bold         n019004l.pfb
> Helvetica-BoldOblique  Helvetica-BoldOblique  n019024l.pfb
> Courier                Courier                n022003l.pfb
> Courier-Oblique        Courier-Oblique        n022023l.pfb
> Courier-Bold           Courier-Bold           n022004l.pfb
> Courier-BoldOblique    Courier-BoldOblique    n022024l.pfb
> Symbol                 Symbol                 s050000l.pfb
> ZapfDingbats           ZapfDingbats           d050000l.pfb
>
> These font files - the files listed in the last column of this file -
> seem to belong in the urw-base35-fonts package, indeed this package
> search
> <https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Furw-base35-fonts%2Furw-base35-fonts-20170801-2&grep=n021003l>
> finds them there. However they aren't there anymore. I'm guessing they
> have been renamed? Does this sound correct? Using find to look for the
> files, I can't find them anywhere...
Those type 1 fonts are now in the following files in
/usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/:
NimbusRoman-Regular.t1
NimbusRoman-Italic.t1
NimbusRoman-Bold.t1
NimbusRoman-BoldItalic.t1
NimbusSans-Regular.t1
NimbusSans-Italic.t1
NimbusSans-Bold.t1
NimbusSans-BoldItalic.t1
NimbusMonoPS-Regular.t1
NimbusMonoPS-Italic.t1
NimbusMonoPS-Bold.t1
NimbusMonoPS-BoldItalic.t1
StandardSymbolsPS.t1
D050000L.t1
Ken
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