Hi all, Below is an update for the fonts question in the FAQ. Feel free to modify it at will. Please note that a URL is needed to a continuing updated version of UnixFont.txt (see ***FIXME) Regards, Adam ---------- How do I use True Type fonts for AbiWord on Linux? AbiWord supports TrueType fonts in GNU/Linux. However your system must already have a properly configured TrueType font server. To find out how to configure your font server to use TrueType fonts, or how to install a separate TrueType font server, please read the Font HOWTO: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO.html In particular the section "Making Fonts Available to X": http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO-4.html Please also refer to the "Customizing Fonts for Unix in AbiWord" Document: ***FIXME: http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/983042494/983069185/983094457/983099487/983099 761/UnixFonts.html Be aware that fonts will only appear in AbiWord if they exist in or are symlinked to the AbiWord fonts directory: /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts Certain font names are critical to the operation of AbiWord, notably "Times New Roman". If you want to use Microsoft's core fonts in AbiWord and the core fonts are already properly installed in a separate directory, such as (this is just an example): /usr/share/fonts/MSCoreFonts Then to make those fonts available to AbiWord, delete or move the current fonts in /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts and type (as root): ln -s /usr/share/fonts/MSCoreFonts/* /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts If the fonts are already properly installed it doesn't appear necessary to update the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files (i.e. they can be left as symlinks). AbiWord should now detect the Microsoft core fonts. If you want to know how to install Microsoft's core fonts, which are freely available and redistributable with certain restrictions, download them from here: http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/ Microsoft stipulates you can only distribute the fonts as Windows executables. It is fortunate that decoding these executables is possible under Linux: http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php3 Once all the TrueType fonts are extracted into a (separate) directory of your choosing you just (this explanation may be Redhat 6.2+ specific): (a) execute ttmkfdir (the True Type make font directory) (b) execute "chkfontpath --add (directory of the fonts)", or edit /etc/X11/fs/config manually. (c) Optional: Put the Microsoft core fonts at the top of the directories list in /etc/X11/fs/config. Then restart the font server: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart The Microsoft core fonts will now be properly installed and you can make the fonts available to AbiWord by symlinking as explained above. ---------- Regards, Adam
