Here a little tutorial on how to get HDL Designer 2013.1 running under Ubuntu 14.04. This took me quite some time to solve this problem. That's why I wanna post it here:
First this package has to be installed in case you are running a 64Bit system sudo apt-get install libxtst6:i386
Initially the error message is something like: Error:Could not create fontset for font '-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--14-100-100-100-p-82-ISO8859-1' The following characters can not be drawn with this font ISO8859-15
This can be solved by:
sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi
xset fp rehash