has not been able to find any font

From: Jeremy C. Reed (reed_at_reedmedia.net)
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 00:45:25 EST

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    Just installed the abiword-2.0.4nb3 package from pkgsrc under Linux. It is
    from abiword-2.0.4 source.

    Running it from a remote Linux machine to my local NetBSD X desktop says:

      AbiWord has not been able to find any font. Please check that you have
      configured correctly your font config file (it's usually located at
      /etc/fonts/fonts.conf)

    fc-list on that remote Linux machine tells me:

    LucidaBright:style=Italic
    Utopia:style=Bold Italic
    Fixed:style=Bold
    Helvetica:style=Bold Italic
    Times:style=Bold Italic
    Clean:style=Regular
    Utopia:style=Bold
    ClearlyU PUA:style=Regular
    Charter:style=Bold Italic
    Courier:style=Bold Italic
    Courier:style=Regular
    Charter:style=Bold
    LucidaBright:style=Regular
    Terminal:style=Bold
    Lucida:style=Italic
    Helvetica:style=Italic
    Times:style=Bold
    Charter:style=Italic
    Newspaper:style=Regular
    Lucida:style=Regular
    Times:style=Italic
    ClearlyU:style=Regular
    New Century Schoolbook:style=Bold
    ClearlyU Alternate Glyphs:style=Regular
    Utopia:style=Italic
    LucidaTypewriter:style=Regular
    LucidaTypewriter:style=Bold
    Helvetica:style=Bold
    Times:style=Regular
    New Century Schoolbook:style=Bold Italic
    Lucida:style=Bold
    Fixed:style=Italic
    Helvetica:style=Regular
    Lucida:style=Bold Italic
    Courier:style=Italic
    Charter:style=Regular
    Terminal:style=Regular
    Fixed:style=Regular
    New Century Schoolbook:style=Italic
    Courier:style=Bold
    Utopia:style=Regular
    New Century Schoolbook:style=Regular

    So I added the ms-ttf package (for TrueType fonts from Microsoft). And
    then ran "sudo fc-cache -v" which told me:

    ...
    fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF": caching, 30 fonts, 0 dirs
    ...
    fc-cache: succeeded

    But abiword has same error pop-up.

    fc-list tells me that I have new fonts, such as:

    Arial:style=Regular
    Webdings:style=Regular
    Verdana:style=Bold Italic
    Trebuchet MS:style=Bold Italic
    Trebuchet MS:style=Italic
    Comic Sans MS:style=Bold
    Trebuchet MS:style=Regular
    Times New Roman:style=Bold Italic
    Arial Black:style=Regular
    Impact:style=Regular
    Times New Roman:style=Bold
    Verdana:style=Bold
    Arial:style=Bold Italic
    Georgia:style=Bold
    Courier New:style=Regular
    Times New Roman:style=Italic
    Trebuchet MS:style=Bold
    Courier New:style=Bold Italic
    Georgia:style=Italic
    Andale Mono:style=Regular
    Georgia:style=Bold Italic
    Courier New:style=Bold
    Courier New:style=Italic
    Times New Roman:style=Regular
    Arial:style=Italic
    Comic Sans MS:style=Regular
    Georgia:style=Regular
    Verdana:style=Regular
    Verdana:style=Italic
    Arial:style=Bold

    What does "AbiWord has not been able to find any font" really mean?

    I pressed okay several times and it kept popping up.

    I looked at the FAQ but it didn't say much (and I didn't see mentioned in
    other docs).

    My fontconfig is installed from the fontconfig-2.2.1nb3 package (using
    pkgsrc on Linux).

    And why can't I exit? The error pop-up should give me a choice to exit.
    Using kill or xkill seems like the wrong solution.

    So then I killed abiword and it started again and there were my new
    truetype fonts :)

    Please consider:

    - telling the user what type of fonts it is looking for in the fonts error
      pop-up

    - allow it to rescan correctly

    - allow a way to exit in case it can't rescan

    Thank you for continued development on abiword. It has been quite useful.

       Jeremy C. Reed
       http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

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