Observations from an Elf-King: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 06:01:46 -0500 From: Ahmed Masud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi all: I think i may have found the underlying problem regarding abiword not finding fonts. The problem is not really with the bitmapped fonts, nor is it with having abi's versions of ttf fonts as some solutions might have suggested. The problem definitely is somewhere in the font mapping code, however, i found that building the font-config cache seems to work regardless of whether one has /path/to/X11/lib/X11/fonts in the fonts.conf or not - nor does it matter if you have pcf.gz files lying around or not, the code ignores them correctly. So, before trying anything else out, please attempt the following as super-user: # fc-cache I have tested and verified this on a very standard platform built all from original sources: linux-2.4.18 glibc2 gnome-2 (garnome-0.20) fcpackage-2.1 and the abiword cvs image as of Friday 7, 2003. Cheers, Ahmed. mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
