xfig font failure

[Kevin J. Cummings]

On 09/01/2009 06:06 PM, John Thompson wrote:
> I haven't used xfig since updating from Fedora-10 to Fedora-11, and
> today when I finally had occasion to try it, it doesn't work:
> 
> Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
> Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset
> Warning: Cannot convert string "6x13" to type FontStruct
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
> 
> Google tells me that Debian people found this results from a missing
> "gsfonts-X11" package, but Fedora has no such package.
> 
> What am I missing?

What do you have to do to see the errors?  I just started xfig from the
menu on my F11.x86_64 laptop, and it starts and shows me a blank
workspace.  When I start it from the command line, I see no messages.

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