Re: Abiword still not finding fonts

From: Price Technology (info@price-technology.com)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 19:56:07 EDT

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    What worked for me under Red Hat 7.2 with AbiWord 1.0.1 was this:

    Reinstall the fonts. You'll have to force this.

    Make a copy of the file "fonts.dir" which is in the AbiWord fonts folder.

    run the command: chmod -w /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/fonts.dir

    The copy you made is just in case the "chmod" doesn't work after reboot. It did work for me, but I've read
    here on the list where it doesn't work for some people.

    Hope this helps.

    Joebewan

    5/28/02 6:21:56 PM, orinjus@yahoo.com wrote:

    >
    >
    >I have Redhat 7.3, Abiword 1.0.0 with GNOME support, XFree 4.2
    >When I launch Abiword, it gives me the message about not being able to
    >load fonts and quits. /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 has Load "type1" in it,
    >and I tried running
    >/usr/sbin/chkfontpath -a /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts, but it gives me
    >this:
    >chkfontpath: error opening /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/fonts.dir,
    >unwilling to add path
    >Someone told me to run mkfontdir on /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts to fix
    >this, but that gives this error:
    >mkfontdir: bad format for /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/fonts.scale file
    >mkfontdir: failed to create directory in /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/
    >I checked, and the fonts.scale file is there and looks OK to me.
    >What can I do to fix this?
    >Thanks,
    >Ben
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