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

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