Abiword can't open Ted RTF

Greetings, all.

I've been experiencing that (Debian?) bug that causes Abiword 2.6.4 to
compose garbage unless msttcorefonts are installed on a Linux system
(I'm using antiX Mepis). Installing the fonts fixes the problem for all
subsequent documents. But: Any RTF documents already composed by older
apps like Ted still open as garbage. I'm attaching a document to
illustrate.

I'm thinking the problem is that Ted requires a different font set
(xfonts-100dpi-transcoded and xfonts-75dpi-transcoded). Somehow the
2.6.x Abiword series cannot deal with that set? Well, there is one fix
for this: Opening such a document in Abiword, saving all, and then
clicking the "normal" setting in the drop-down style menu restores the
file.

The fix works fine, but it's cumbersome. Anyone using the 2.6.x
Abiword series to access an archive of RTF files composed on an app
like Ted will encounter real inconvenience and frustration (especially
if they don't know the fix). So I'm wondering whether I've diagnosed
the problem accurately, and whether there's an easier fix.

Even though Ted is pretty outdated, it's still widely used on minimalist
systems like DSL (and on BSD). Users may have used it to produce a lot
of archived RTF files. And perhaps the same problem affects apps other
than Ted.

Can anything be done about this?

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