On 2018-03-12 10:11, Hunter, Kendall wrote: > I am experiencing the same problem mentioned in this > post<https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-01/msg00135.html>: xmgrace fails on > cygwin64. It simply doesn't start, even if GRACE_HOME is properly set to > /usr/share/grace. I believe I've found a fix for this issue; it is associated > with recent changes that have occurred in the urw-base35-fonts package. > > In detail: xmgrace as currently built tries to use the type 1 fonts in > /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts. It appears (?) to catalog them using a font > mapping contained in one of its configuration files, named appropriately > enough, FontDataBase, which sits in /usr/share/grace/fonts. 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 > > The font files - the files listed in the rightmost 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. They have been renamed > and are now in /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35/ under the following names (thanks > to Ken Brown): > > 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 > > I tried changing the FontDataBase file to list these names instead, but that > had no effect. So I: > > * Removed the old symbolic link /usr/share/grace/fonts/type1, which > pointed to /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts. > * Created a new one that pointed to /usr/share/fonts/urw-base35. > * Within urw-base35, I symlinked each old name to the new name (e.g. > n021003l.pfb -> NimbusRoman-Regular.t1, and so on for all 14 fonts). > > After doing this, xmgrace fired up no problem. So the package could be > rebuilt with awareness of the new font location and names, and a fix for now > is to simply relink its font directory and link these names as above.
Grace project considers it a downstream distro issue: http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3285 Detailed analysis, workarounds, and patches for Fedora are at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1502175 -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
