[SOLVED] XFIG unable to load font set

business_kid · 02-02-2012, 01:54 PM

This is in slackware64-current. It throws up a list of fonts it didn't find and barfs when I load a library. I did find this
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ontset-883553/

and tried the solution but no joy. Anyone got the syntax for the /etc/X11/app-defaults/Fig file to tell it there are 1000s of %$£@! fonts on the system?

guanx · 02-03-2012, 07:09 AM

I got the same. Wanted to spend no time in finding out the cause, I simply duplicated the "gb18030" lines in
"/usr/share/fonts/TTF/fonts.{dir,scale}" and changed "gb18030.2000" to "gbk" in the new lines.

Then xfig worked.
Of course it depends on your locale.

business_kid · 02-03-2012, 08:30 AM

Sounds devious and excellent! I'll go off and hack appropriately.
I'm in Ireland.

For the record, any idea _why_ it worked? I can't find where they set the font.

business_kid · 02-03-2012, 11:32 AM

Not sorted yet. I have no lines about font gb18030 or gb<anything> for that matter. Here's the error I see. It finds fonts, but I still get the middle finger
http://pastebin.com/qN19YSiK

guanx · 02-03-2012, 12:06 PM

Most probably you don't have it, when you don't use zh locales.
What does the locale command say?

In the mean time you can run "LC_ALL=C xfig".

business_kid · 02-03-2012, 02:19 PM

LANG=C xfig

It's barfing on utf-8. This is half of a workaround, and it works for me. What's depressing is that different things work for different folks and it's locale dependent.

guanx · 02-03-2012, 04:09 PM

Why "LANG=C"? The key is "LC_CTYPE".

If you need UTF-8, set locale to something like this:

Code:

LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_TIME=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_NAME=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=zh_CN.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

Note that "LC_ALL" must be empty.

business_kid · 02-04-2012, 03:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guanx

Why "LANG=C"? The key is "LC_CTYPE".

If you need UTF-8, set locale to something like this:
[SNIP]
Note that "LC_ALL" must be empty.

I am working by getting away from UTF-8 xfig-3.2.4 may not be under active development. it's veen at 3.2.4 for a looong time·

joghi · 02-04-2012, 04:23 AM

You can download version 3.2.5 from www.xfig.org. However, some patches from the slackbuild script in src doesn't work any more, so you have to compile and install it on your own. BTW, does printing directly from xfig work for you with version 3.2.4?

business_kid · 02-04-2012, 07:37 AM

I saw that myself, thanks, joghi.
Don't worry about the patches, I can shoehorn most of that stuff in if it belongs - I'm an ex-LFSer. HLFS is/was a master class in applying patches.
3.2.4 to 3.2.5 doesn't sound amazing. It's more like a (long overdue) bug fix package. If they had Unicode, I would expect 3.3.0 at least.

joghi · 02-04-2012, 12:03 PM

Yes, it's mostly bugfixes. I switched to version 3.2.5 sometime because printing xfig postscript directly suddenly only produced white pages for me. It seemed to me that this was due to transfig producing slightly incorrect postscript code, that was not accepted by CUPS any longer. What interests me is, if this problem still occurs with version 3.2.4 of xfig / transfig in Slackware-current. If not, maybe I have to look somewhere else in my system configuration.

business_kid · 02-05-2012, 09:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by joghi

Yes, it's mostly bugfixes. I switched to version 3.2.5 sometime because printing xfig postscript directly suddenly only produced white pages for me. It seemed to me that this was due to transfig producing slightly incorrect postscript code, that was not accepted by CUPS any longer. What interests me is, if this problem still occurs with version 3.2.4 of xfig / transfig in Slackware-current. If not, maybe I have to look somewhere else in my system configuration.

It seems Xfig/transfig is locale sensitive, and particularly about utf-8. Send me a file if you like, and I'll run it through here. I have to sort printing myself.

business_kid · 02-05-2012, 09:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by guanx

Most probably you don't have it, when you don't use zh locales.
What does the locale command say?

In the mean time you can run "LC_ALL=C xfig".

Thanks, guanx I spotted this late.

Due to the vagaries of the internet, This post wasn't in the thread for me whan I was replying as I did. It is indeed the solution.

joghi · 02-05-2012, 01:02 PM

I'm still not using utf-8, so this maybe wasn't the problem. With transfig 3.2.5d printing works for me.
Just in case you should experience problems to.