Missing fonts in xfig [Solved]

[holm74]

Hi there,

just for the people who have problems with xfig: every time when I tried to enlarge the fonts I got the error

Can't find -urw-nimbus .... ISO8859 using 6x13 (nearly with all fonts)

There are a couple of (brute force) solutions here: none worked. But a page in the web helped me:

1. for me /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ was missing: I think xfig still uses it
2. so I did a mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
3. cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
4. ln -s /usr/share/fonts fonts
5. cd fonts
6. fc-cache urw-fonts

Now exit as root and as normal user do

7. xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/urw-fonts
8. xset fp rehash
9. xfig

After that it worked for me.

Have fun

Holm

[ab3ap]

Nearly 4 years since the post, but this just solved the problem for me. (Steps 5 and 6 not needed by me.) Thanks!