Re: Trouble with AbiWord on a terminal

From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 05:30:04 EDT

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    On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Alex Roston wrote:
    > The problem is that AbiWord seems to work just fine on the monitor
    > that's connected to the server. However, when I try to run it on one of
    > the thin clients I get an error message (twice) telling me that AbiWord
    > can't find the Times Roman font, then the program crashes.

    I think the fonts need to be loaded both on the machine running AbiWord
    and the machine whose X Display is being used.

    Not sure, though. I often run AbiWord on a remote machine, but I always
    have to run it locally first so that the fonts get loaded on the local
    machine.

    Regards, Frank

    Francis James Franklin
    F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk

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