From: Austin Gonyou (austin@digitalroadkill.net)
Date: Mon Apr 08 2002 - 16:35:50 EDT
You may want to restart xfs?
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 10:23, Bronislaw Baraniecki wrote:
> ---Reply to mail from Martin Sevior about Abi ttf-fonts path
>
> Hi,
>
> It sounds extra for ISO-8859-1 fonts only!
>
> On my RedHat7.2 with abiword-0.99.3-1.i386.rpm or *.tar.gz (I tried
> bothe) and polish LANG="pl_PL" env with type1 or ttf-fonts iso8859-2
> enconding, the AW does refuse to find them. The path to fonts is
> exactly as here or in the documentation is said
> [/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/pl_PL (also .../pl_PL.ISO-8859-2) in first
> case, and /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts/pl_PL (also ../pl_PL.ISO-8859-2) in
> a second case].
>
> With ttf-fonts path I've got "fonts.scale" and "fonts.dir" with
> ttmkfdir followed by tools "ttftool" and "ttfadmin.sh" found in
> AbiSuite/bin directory. I also removed lines in "fonts.dir" and
> "fonts.scale" files with other encodings except iso8859-2 which I left
> untouched.
>
> Dispite of that AW could not see new fonts dir. Must say, I am realy
> exhausted. I could not find a way to make AW to use ISO-8859-2 fonts.
>
> Best,
>
> Bronek
>
>
>
> >
> > Hi Bernard,
> > Thank you very much. To the developers, surely somebody could
> > cook up a parl script or something to do this automatically? This has to
> > be the most asked question we get on IRC and it would be great to include
> > this as plugin or even a seperate script.
> >
> > ie:
> >
> > Choose: Tools->install TTF fonts, restart abiword.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Martin
> > On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Bernard Lambey wrote:
> >
> >> Well! I have my ttf fonts with my 0.99.3 AbiWord version !...
> >> In spite of my bad english I was (correctly understood and) powerfully
> >> helped by Anne Parker and Gabe de Jong, and they gave me the com-
> >> plete solution. If I sum up that solution, we will have :
> >> In order to substitute the Windows-ttf fonts to original AW fonts,
> >> there are some things to do in a definite order :
> >>
> >> 1) Verify you have "ttftool and "ttfadmin.sh" in the AW binary principal
> > directory
> >> (for me it is : "/usr/local/bin") where is the wrapper "abiword", else,
> > find them
> >> to place here.
> >> 2) go to folder where is directory "fonts" (the AbiWord fonts dir).
> >> 3) create a new dir "SVGFontsType1"
> >> 4) cut-paste all fonts from dir "fonts" to dir "SVGFontsType1"
> >> 5) copy-paste the ".../windows/system/fonts" to dir "fonts"
> >> 6) in a console, as "root", run the commands :
> >> ...../fonts# ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
> >> ...../fonts# mkfontdir
> >> (to obtain here the both files : fonts.scale and fonts.dir)
> >> 7) return to binary AbiWord dir, where is (important) "ttftool" to execute:
> >> ...../bin# ttfadmin.sh /usr/local/share/AbiSuite/fonts
> >>
> >> ...and it is finished. When you will lauch AbiWord you will have all the good
> >> ttf fonts used byu Windows...
> >>
> >> Extra!!!
> >> Many thanks to Anne and Gabe.
> >> Bernard Lambey
> >>
>
> ---End reply
> --
> Bronislaw B. Baraniecki
> <bemak@plejada.it.pl>
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