font trouble with v2.0.0

From: busmanus (busmanus.lk_at_freemail.hu)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 14:05:28 EST

  • Next message: Dom Lachowicz: "Re: font trouble with v2.0.0"

    Greetings to everyone,

    I received and compiled abiword-2.0.0 under Woody-r1
    with the latest fribidi release (version 0.10.4?, I'm not sure)
    render 0.8, xrender 0.83, fontconfig 2.2.0, glib-2.2.3,
    pango-1.2.5, atk-1.2.4 (I think) the latest gtk+ (2.2.4(?)) and
    gucharmap 1.0.0. Man, it is truly impressive, especially if you are
    interested in human languages!

    But after all I'm writing because of a problem, so let's get to the
    point.

    My hardship is, that I was trying to use a custom ttf font with the new
    AbiWord, but instead of reading the glyphs that were in the font, it
    presented me with some (incomplete) fallback set, that wasn't really
    suitable for my purpose. This font was usable with all other programs
    I tried it with, including the copy of gucharmap that I linked abiword
    against, although I was aware, that it is incorrectly coded and only
    half-fixed with pfaedit to map the characters I needed to their proper
    Unicode code points.

    So I tried to fix my font, apparently successfully, with a fresh version
    of pfaedit and some manual hacking of the .sfd files pfaedit uses.
    But...
    I can only use the repaired font in AbiWord, if I give it a new name to
    be used in the drop-down font-selection list. If I use the old name,
    Abiword resorts to the old fallback glyph set, probably saved in some
    cache on the filesystem, or to plain circles. My question is, how I can
    delete this cache, or whatever it is, and force Abiword to read in
    my font file instead of it. The menus of the program have nothing like
    this, or I missed it.

    Regards,

    busmanus

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