fonts in Cygwin
Klaus Kassner
Klaus.Kassner@physik.uni-magdeburg.de
Mon Aug 1 15:35:00 GMT 2005
Michael Denk wrote:
> 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.
Sure, I will :-). I am very interested in getting this to work, since I
mostly use Helvetica Narrow in my slides. I have tried to find out
where these fonts are on my work computer, where everything is available
under ubuntu, but I have not yet fully figured out how to use them on
other computers. It seems that Helvetica Narrow is actually some Nimbus
Sans font and there is a file /etc/X11/fonts/Type1/gsfonts-x11.alias
containing the mapping. So maybe this is part of the way to tell X of
the existence of the Ghostscript fonts, but I doubt it is the complete
picture.
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