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