>
> Running Fedora Core 4 up to patch level
> AbiWord 2.2.9 from Fedora Extras
>
> When I install a TrueType font, it is available for use by AbiWord.
> When I install an OpenType font, it is available to Mozilla (ie the font
> face tag works) and I can view the glyphs with xfd - but the font is not
> available to AbiWord.
>
> Usually when I buy fonts, I buy the TrueType version.
> However, an increasing number of fonts are only available in otf - and I
> suspect that buying the otf version is going to be wiser as far as
> usefulness of the fonts in years to come.
>
> Is what I'm experiencing an AbiWord issue, or is it the font system in
> Fedora that isn't properly making them available to AbiWord?
>
> It's not that big of an issue right now, the only otf font I have (that
> I don't also have ttf version of) isn't something I need to use in
> AbiWord (it is "Symbol Std" from Adobe - currently only available in
> otf) but I'm curious as to why AbiWord can't see it.
>
> AbiWord does see the Symbol type1 font that is from Acrobat Reader
> (assuming I put it where xft can find it) and its essentially the same
> font - a few of the glyphs are in different character locations (I think
> only 3 or 4), so its really not an issue, but ... I'm curious as to why
> the otf font can't be seen.
>
> otf fonts in Windows when I had a windows box seemed to work just dandy
> in AbiWord, but I'm guessing the font parts of AbiWord are totally
> different on Windows and Linux ...
>
As far as I can tell font-config should discover the otf fonts provided
they're put a director expected by font-config.
Just putting them in .fonts in your home directory should work.
Their maybe some magic in getting font-config to find these. Look at
/etc/fonts.conf
If you can;t workout what is going wrong ask Keith Packard on freedesktop.org
Cheers
Martin
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