Re: [Users] Abiword, fonts, Mozilla, and Ximian

From: Marc Williams (marcw@onlymooo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 25 2002 - 15:22:30 EST

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    Since the document listed in the FAQ is an .abw doc, I had to reinstall
    Abiword just to see that doc. I was of course assuming that this
    document came with the RPM install. But no. It doesn't exist on my
    hard drive. I used both find and slocate and it's definitely not
    there.

    Ok, so it doesn't come with the Ximian distribution. I head back to the
    Abiword site and grab the 15MB tarball. Thank goodness for cable/dsl.
    After extracting the source and after some fishing and nosing around I
    did find there was another abw doc that had the appropriate info.

    The correct doc is actually called problemsfonts.abw. Whew, my problems
    are solved, I thought.

    Not quite. The fix looks more difficult and requires more effort than I
    am willing to expend right now. Screw it.

    On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 12:57, John Weber wrote:
    > I just did all the updates through red-carpet to my RH7.1 system and
    > Ximian desktop and I'm not seeing this problem. I did have to fix font
    > problems on the previous 2 abiword updates, so maybe one of those fixes
    > took care of it?
    >
    > Abiword FAQ has this paragraph...
    >
    > AbiWord Messes up Fonts on my Unix Machine
    > This happens because your other applications start using AbiWord
    > fonts instead of the fonts they used to use. Please see the document
    > TrueTypeFontsWithUnix.abw in the doc directory of the AbiWord tree
    > for detailed instructions on how to deal with this.
    >
    >
    > Maybe this info helps...

    > On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 10:49, 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?
    > >
    > >
    > >
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    > --
    > John S. Weber
    > jweber@math.cudenver.edu
    > http://www.users.qwest.net/~weberjohns
    >
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