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Fedora 18: Xfig fonts

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I am running fedora 18 with Mate Desktop. I have installed xfig. It complains of missing fonts for practically all fonts. Those fonts which do show up are spaced wide apart. I have installed xorg-x11-font-misc in addition to a whole lot of fonts needed by latex. I have also installed msttcore-fonts. Of course the basic fonts were installed at the time of system installation. What could be wrong? (HowTos)

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Submitted by nicelinux on 02/02/2013

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