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Re: xfig-3.2.5c-2.x86_64 crashes on save as or export on windows 10


On 02/11/2015 06:17, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
On Sat, 2015-10-31 at 16:47 +0000, Jon Turney wrote:
On 29/10/2015 19:11, Hans-Georg Scherneck wrote:
it crashes on x_86 (i.e. 32 bit version) too, even after re-installing
the xorg-server packages.
xfig won't show the export window before it crashes. What else can I do?
Any step-by-step procedure with xorg-server renewal?
Is there an issue with Athena widgets?

I'd suggest, as an alternative workaround, with the current server:

ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi
/etc/X11/fontpath.d/xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi:pri=40

I'm not sure we should recommend this.

I agree.

It's just a workaround, which also serves to confirm that the issue is font related, until the steps you outline can be taken.

It seems that xfig requires the font '*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*' for
that dialog, but that is not one of the sizes provided by
xorg/font/adobe-*dpi (14 and 17 are the nearest), so we have to allow
this font to be scaled (or provide a scalable font which also matches
that XLFD)

Fedora carries the following patch (among others):

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/xfig.git/tree/xfig-3.2.5-urwfonts.patch

We currently provide the URW fonts in ghostscript-fonts-std.  That
should be rebuilt to add a symlink in /etc/X11/fontpath.d, and xfig
rebuilt with that patch (and possibly others from that set as well).

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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