Re: Fix for TTF font problem!

From: Roger Penn (poohbear@rogweb.com)
Date: Sun Feb 24 2002 - 02:42:55 GMT

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    Thanks Anne! Finally something that almost works!

    However, while at least my fonts now show up in Abiword, and many of
    them are usable, with a large number of them, when I select the font
    from the drop-down box I get an error that says it encountered a
    premature EOF in the font metrics file and then it crashes my whole X
    session!

    Anyone have any idea why it's not generating proper .afm's from certain
    TT files? I would suspect a problem with the font file, except that the
    fonts that are causing these problems are available and work just fine
    in other X apps such as GIMP, et. al. Please, if anyone has some insight
    on this or how the ttfadmin.sh does (or doesn't do) it's thing, please
    share.

    And I agree with Anne. Who is responsible for maintaining the FAQ and
    how do we get it updated? Now, I realize the responsible parties are
    very busy, and my aim here is not to aggravate a sore spot, but since
    July 2001 how many people have wasted entire nights in frustration, as I
    have, trying to make the instructions in the FAQ work when they're not
    complete? The FAQ should really be updated! Note to responsible party
    for FAQ updating: I'll put my time where my mouth is- if I can help out
    just contact me and let me know how.

    On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 23:05, Anne Parker wrote:
    > I came across the following fix on the Abisource developer's mailing list
    > archive whilst trawling Google. The message was dated July 2001, so Lord only
    > knows why they haven't updated the FAQ yet :)
    >
    > To get MS truetype fonts working in Abiword, follow the instructions in the
    > FAQ (i.e. move the abiword fonts out of their folder and copy or symlink your
    > MS fonts there), *then* type the following command as root:
    >
    > /usr/share/AbiWord/bin/ttfadmin.sh /usr/share/AbiWord/fonts/
    >
    > This should produce quite a few lines of console output as the shell script
    > ttfadmin.sh processes the substitute fonts. Then launch AbiWord, et voila!
    > Pretty truetype fonts instead of ugly Abisource Type1.
    >
    > N.B. This works for the current abiword-gtk-0.9.6...rpm version - can't
    > comment on earlier ones which didn't use the abiword-fonts rpm.
    >
    > Enjoy!
    >
    > Anne



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