Re: Abiword can't open Ted RTF

Thanks for the response. I'll have to do some more digging to determine
whether it's something in my system or something in Debian that
justifies a bug report (the problem has been reported to others at
the Debian site).

I have a new element to add: I've been able to open .doc files just
fine until I received one recently as an attachment and, once again,
Abiword opened it as garbage. Open Office Writer opens it fine. And
when I do a "select all" and switch font to Times New Roman in Abiword,
it opens fine too. This is different from my fix for Ted .rtf documents.

The fact that my test file opens fine in Fedora suggests it may be a
Debian thing and not limited to my own font setup, no?

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:48:44 +0100
"J.M. Maurer" <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:

>
> Hi Mark.
>
> The example file you provided 'Just Works' on here Fedora 8. My
> educated guess: your fontconfig installation/setup doesn't properly
> substitute the missing font (for a font that is actually available and
> readably).
>
> Cheers!
> Marc
>
> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 23:33 -0800, Mark Richardson wrote:
> > 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 Even though Ted is pretty outdated, it's still widely used on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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