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RE: Xfig and Scalable Fonts
- To: "'Fabio at Colorado dot EDU'" <Fabio at Colorado dot EDU>, "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Xfig and Scalable Fonts
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 20:18:50 -0400
You can use xfs under Cygwin too. The man pages of "docs" (docs are
insatlled as html pages under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc) will give you info on
how to do it.
> I have the following problem when running Piere Humblet's cygwin port
> of xfig under 4.1.0.
>
> Text is only diplayed if the font size is one of the following sizes:
>
> 10, 12, 14, 18, 24
>
> This happens for both postscript and latex fonts.
>
> These sizes are indeed the font sizes for which pcf files exist in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts.
>
> The linux boxes I have access to have the same sizes, but they appear
> to be able to scale the fonts.
>
> Is this a known problem? Any suggestions on how to solve it?
Fonts are same as under Linux. You can also copy any fonts from Linux and
install them under /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts and add them to your path.
Suhaib
>
> (I cannot use the remote Linux box as font server because the service
> is disabled.)
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Fabio