Re: Abiword, fonts, Mozilla, and Ximian

From: Marc Williams (marcw@onlymooo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 13:56:54 EST

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    On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 12:40, Gabe de Jong wrote:
    > On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 18:49, Marc Williams wrote:
    > > I seem to have stumbled across a possible Abiword defect. And this one
    > > seems to affect at least two other applications - Mozilla and Galeon.
    > > But since the Abiword I installed was made from Ximian, I can't be
    > > positive it's an Abiword problem.
    > >
    > > Here's the scenario:
    > > 1) Running RH 7.1 and Ximian desktop both fully patched and current.
    > > 2) I installed Abiword .99.3-1 from Ximian.
    > > 3) I noticed that native web fonts for a few different sites as
    > > displayed in Mozilla and Galeon looked awful. Example: www.freshmeat.net
    > > 4) Uninstalled Abiword and problem went away.
    > > 5) Reproduced the problem and solution on 2 other desktops.
    > >
    > > It's an easy test if you have Ximian. Can anyone else confirm this?
    > >
    >
    > I run SuSE 7.2 and Ximian desktop completely updated with red-carpet,
    > with abiword-0.99.3-1.ximian.1 and I have the same problem. After
    > deinstalling AbiWord, freshmeat.net looked well again.
    >

    Aha! So I'm not crazy after all. At least not about this. Now, I
    wonder to whom does this problem belong - Abiword or Ximian?

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