Arch Linux

i have no clue why. i can reproduce it and it is a bad thing - although i never used other fonts than default in my figures since labeling happens outside for me, i see this as a major break.

will investigate if i find time... alternative: should we downgrade to 3.2.4 till a solution is found?

I have found that I can specify any font when starting xfig with 'xfig -startpsFont <font>' (ie symbol, courier) and use that font but once I try to change it in the interface it goes to default.

> alternative: should we downgrade to 3.2.4 till a solution is found?

IMHO we should.

it looks very much the only solution. the 3.2.5 is such a pain!!!! - i will downgrade and decide that we skip it completely. next arch release will be 3.2.6, agree?

I perfectly agree.
I'm looking at ipe, I've made an uptodate PKGBUILD, it runs smoothly. Interesting, I didn't know about it. Or what do you use to includ latex tags in your images?

ok, i'll downgrade it.

ipe? i don't know it - is it worth? more useable than xfig? (more up to date? using some cooler gui widgets? *smile*) if it is the new replacement, we should add it to extra.

Ipe is not a real replacement to xfig, but it has some cool features (and definitely better widgets). I started just few moments ago playing with it (and got already a crash). It is worth looking... http://tclab.kaist.ac.kr/ipe/

Looking forward the downgrade of xfig though...

===> Commited with "upgpkg: xfig 3.2.4-10
xfig downgrade - as decided in bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8806&quot; message

rebuild in i686 will follow later

hmm, ipe looks promising, but is quite unstable, i just tried it and it crashed multiple times... maybe it will mature.

downgraded the xfig in x86_64, i686 will follow later

I agree I have been using 3.2.4 with pacman ignoring 3.2.5 anyway. I did rebuild 3.2.5 today and for some reason it is a little better you can choose fonts but if you dont have the exact right fontsize it will say font is missing. As far as 3.2.6 there is a note on the xfig 3.2.5 download page that this is expected to be final version.

Just a quick comment: xfig depends on xaw3d, but is not linked against libXaw3d.so...
This small patch (call to sed) fix this:
--- PKGBUILD.org 2008-03-13 21:38:52.000000000 +0100
+++ PKGBUILD 2008-03-13 21:40:07.000000000 +0100
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
# =3.2.4
patch -Np1 -i ../xfig-gcc4.patch

+ sed -e 's/^XCOMM #define XAW3D/#define XAW3D/' -i Imakefile
# make makefile with imake
xmkmf || return 1



Is xdraft (http://xdraft.sourceforge.net/) a possible alternative to xfig?

I have been using a patched version of xfig 3.2.4 for some time. The patch replaces the standard Postscript font names with the names of the equivalent URW fonts that come with Ghostscript. This worked better for me than using fonts.alias or whatever.

Anyway, it appears that this patch works with xfig 3.2.5. I have no problem with fonts.

I am a bit busy at present, but I will post a more informative comment when I get time.

Glyn: Could you attached the patch you are using?

I intend to update xfig to 3.2.5 once I fix this font problem. There is a comment in the PKGBUILD about 3.2.5 having other problems as well. Does anyone know what they might be?

FYI: I believe I have fixed this fonts issue and other issues with a bunch of patches from Fedora. They replace the missing fonts with their URW equivalent. It's probably the same patch Glyn refered above. It could take some time before the package is updated because it needs the newest xaw3d to build and that will necessitate a rebuild of everything that depends on xaw3d.

The font problem should be fixed in the xfig 3.2.5-1 in testing repo. It is built against xaw3d 1.5E-1 in testing so you'll need to also update your xaw3d and all your packages that depends on it by their versions in testing.