Troy Dawson wrote:
Peter Scott wrote:
Dear SL,
For SL 5.0 I noticed that the available xfig and transfig rpms
available from the usual repos (transfig.x86_64 1:3.2.4-16 and
xfig.x86_64 3.2.4-21.2.el5) do not completely work in that
they do not recognize the urw ghostscript fonts that exist in
the 5.0 offering, which include the AvantGarde, Palatino, Bookman
and Zapf Chancery and Zapf Dingbat fonts. These are also older
versions of xfig and transfig, which were since upgraded to
version 3.2.5 for both.
I did discover, however, that the following set of four rpms
from Fedora 7 (and perhaps Fedora 8, although I did not try
those) do work on my SL 5.0 system, and install correctly with
no additional dependencies:
xfig-3.2.5-5.fc7.x86_64.rpm
xfig-common-3.2.5-5.fc7.x86_64.rpm
transfig-3.2.5-1.fc7.x86_64.rpm
xdg-utils-1.0.2-4.fc7.noarch.rpm
These make xfig work without glitches (as far as I can tell so
far), inlcuding all the listed fonts.
So my suggestion is that these be made available in the usual
SL repo set. Does this make sense?
(I am a long-time afficiando of xfig---very useful for me.)
-- Peter
Hi Peter,
I want to check and see if this is our bug or the upstream vendors bug.
I am not a xfig or transfig user. How would I check to see if it is working
correctly or not?
Troy
It's an RedHat bug, reproducable on RHEL 5.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436981
Troy
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