On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:19:52PM +0100, Mike Fabian wrote: > When trying to print Chinese or Japanese with an Abiword > compiled with GNOME support, I just get the error message: > > The font metrics file [MOESung-Regular-B5-H] could > not be opened for parsing, nor was > it possible to retrieve the needed > information from the X server; this > is a fatal error and AbiWord will > terminate. > > [ OK ] > > MOESung-Regular-B5-H is a CID-keyed font which is supported > by the Ghostscript installation I am using. > > /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/zh-TW/fonts.dir contains: >
> > With this setup, printing works just fine when when AbiWord is build > without GNOME support. > > Any ideas what is going wrong with printing when AbiWord is built > with GNOME support? I remember back in 0.7x time, gnome build started to use gnome-print library for printing. There were talks to also kept the generic postscript printing used by the gtk build. CJK printing is only supported by the generic ps printing in abiword for now. The lastest gnome-print start supporting TTF font, CJK printing with gnome-print may finally be supported in abiword with some hack.(?) -- Best regard hashao
