xfig 3.2.5-rel-2ubuntu2, ubuntu 8.10, AMD64, font selection broken

[bruce]

Binary package hint: xfig

A very small font is displayed irrespective of the font selection made in xfig. Also, teh printed font does not correspond in size to the font displayed on-screen. However, what is printed may actually be a better approximation of the selected size and type face than the font displayed on-screen.

I have used synaptic to load font packages beyond the x11 75dpi or 100dpi that get installed by default. So far, no joy with that.

FYI, I have xfig 3.2.4 running in Cygwin on a laptop and all is well there.

The installation here is:

xfig 3.2.5-rel-2ubuntu2, ubuntu 8.10, AMD64

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rod Smith (rodsmith)]

This bug still exists in Ubuntu 14.04. It can be fixed by installing the gsfonts-x11 package. Currently, that package is marked as "suggested" in the xfonts Debian package. I strongly recommend making gsfonts-x11 a full dependency. Although xfig is useful for some purposes without working fonts, I expect most figures created with it will use fonts. (Certainly most of mine do!)

[uffish (uffish2)]

This bug is back in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (I was never bitten by it in previous versions). Installing gsfonts-x11 does not help.

[uffish (uffish2)]

Correction: installing gsfonts-x11 does help, but for some reason you must do xset fp rehash yourself, the installation does not do it for you.