On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Klaus Kassner wrote:
I do get most fonts correctly, including, incidentally, the normal
Helvetica. But some of the fonts are not there, in particular
Helvetica-Narrow.
Ah, now I see your problem. Doesn't work for me either with
Helvetica-Narrow.
So I don't get Helvetica-Narrow, nor, I believe ZapfChancery. In any
case there are several fonts missing, including Helvetica-Narrow. Are
there people out there who have them in their default cygwin
installation?
I did some research: The Postscript fonts that Ghostscript uses aren't
normally available to X programs, e.g. Xfig. This causes the error
messages about missing fonts you mentioned.
You mentioned the Debian package gsfonts-x11. This package solves the
above problem by telling X of the existence of the Ghostscript fonts. I'm
currently working on a similar solution for Cygwin---stay tuned.