Re: AW on RedHat 8.0 problems

From: Carla Schroder (carla@bratgrrl.com)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 14:20:03 EDT

  • Next message: Reuben D. Budiardja: "Re: AW on RedHat 8.0 problems"

    On Thursday 24 October 2002 07:01, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:

    > Hi,
    > I am wondering if this is actually the problem with RH distro rather than
    > Abiword. What fonts do you get in the fonts list in Abiword? I don't even
    > see Times New Roman in the font list, although I installed Abiword my self,
    > and install the abiword-font rpm. Curious..
    > The same set of installation in RH 7.3 brings everything up just fine.
    >
    > Another thing that may or may not be a related problem. Do you have
    > gnumeric installed? If you do, please check it if it suffers from the same
    > problem (font spacing). My gnumeric (installed from RH distro CD) in Redhat
    > 8.0 has the same problem as abiword's. The problem does not appear as bad
    > when I choose font Times New Roman in gnumeric. It happens with other fonts
    > though.
    >
    > Is this Redhat font server problem may be? Am I correct to assume that both
    > gnumeric and abiword was developed using the same API (ie GTK ??) ?

    Not only Abiword, but Gnumeric, and Konsole is odd too. It is part of KDE,
    which is built on Qt.

    Here are screenshots, I put this all in an email to Red Hat, 'cause it sure
    looks like a Red hat issue:

    http://www.bratgrrl.com/abiword.png
    http://www.bratgrrl.com/gnumeric.png
    http://www.bratgrrl.com/openoffice.png
    http://www.bratgrrl.com/konsole.png

    Try printing a man page, it comes out total gobbledegook.

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