RE: AbiWord - .doc to pdf command line conversion

Yes, we have Xorg running, unless its configured incorrectly, but the
sysadmin assures me it's not. Perhaps I should try for a different X
Server?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dom Lachowicz [mailto:domlachowicz@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 4:55 PM
To: Scott Prelewicz; abiword-user@abisource.com
Subject: RE: AbiWord - .doc to pdf command line conversion

Do you have an X server installed and running (even a
dummy server that doesn't draw anything)?

Xft, which is what abiword uses for its font needs,
needs an XServer running.

--- Scott Prelewicz <scottp@noein.com> wrote:

>
> We do have CUPS installed. According to the
> sysadmin, we have
> libgnomeprint 2.2 installed.
>
> Running it under gdb, I see it breaks at
>
> XAP_UnixFont::fetchXftFont ()
>
> asking 'where' gives me about 15 more, but it seems
> to start at
> fetchXftFont. I thought maybe it was possible we
> just didn't have
> correct fonts installed, but running a .doc through
> with fonts that are
> known to be installed creates the same errors.
>
> I could of course be way off, not knowing much about
> the innards of
> AbiWord. Before I submit to bugzilla, I wanted to be
> sure we've tried
> everything, so I'm wondering if the above gdb error
> can clarify
> something first.
>
> Thanks again,
> Scott
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hubert Figuiere [mailto:hfiguiere@teaser.fr]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 3:36 PM
> To: Scott Prelewicz
> Cc: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: AbiWord - .doc to pdf command line
> conversion
>
> Scott Prelewicz wrote:
> >
> > Dom and Ryan,
> >
> > I removed the WordPerfect Plugin, and it got rid
> of some error
> messages,
> > however I am left with this one. Notice the libgsf
> error is gone.
> >
> >
> >>> abiword --to=/tmp/foo.pdf /tmp/bar.doc
> >
> > ** (abiword:14913): WARNING **: failed request
> with status 1030
> > Aborted
> >
>
>
> Just out of curiosity: do you have CUPS installed
> and runing? Since PDF
> conversion require libgnomeprint and libgnomeprint
> somewhat relies on
> CUPS, that might be the loophole. If that is the
> case, which version of
> libgnomeprint do you have.
>
> Hub
>
>
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Received on Wed Jun 7 20:27:57 2006