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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