From: Roger Penn (poohbear@rogweb.com)
Date: Sun Feb 24 2002 - 02:42:55 GMT
Thanks Anne! Finally something that almost works!
However, while at least my fonts now show up in Abiword, and many of
them are usable, with a large number of them, when I select the font
from the drop-down box I get an error that says it encountered a
premature EOF in the font metrics file and then it crashes my whole X
session!
Anyone have any idea why it's not generating proper .afm's from certain
TT files? I would suspect a problem with the font file, except that the
fonts that are causing these problems are available and work just fine
in other X apps such as GIMP, et. al. Please, if anyone has some insight
on this or how the ttfadmin.sh does (or doesn't do) it's thing, please
share.
And I agree with Anne. Who is responsible for maintaining the FAQ and
how do we get it updated? Now, I realize the responsible parties are
very busy, and my aim here is not to aggravate a sore spot, but since
July 2001 how many people have wasted entire nights in frustration, as I
have, trying to make the instructions in the FAQ work when they're not
complete? The FAQ should really be updated! Note to responsible party
for FAQ updating: I'll put my time where my mouth is- if I can help out
just contact me and let me know how.
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 23:05, Anne Parker wrote:
> I came across the following fix on the Abisource developer's mailing list
> archive whilst trawling Google. The message was dated July 2001, so Lord only
> knows why they haven't updated the FAQ yet :)
>
> To get MS truetype fonts working in Abiword, follow the instructions in the
> FAQ (i.e. move the abiword fonts out of their folder and copy or symlink your
> MS fonts there), *then* type the following command as root:
>
> /usr/share/AbiWord/bin/ttfadmin.sh /usr/share/AbiWord/fonts/
>
> This should produce quite a few lines of console output as the shell script
> ttfadmin.sh processes the substitute fonts. Then launch AbiWord, et voila!
> Pretty truetype fonts instead of ugly Abisource Type1.
>
> N.B. This works for the current abiword-gtk-0.9.6...rpm version - can't
> comment on earlier ones which didn't use the abiword-fonts rpm.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Anne
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