Package: abiword
Version: 3.0.4~dfsg-3
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: py4...@teom.net
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Because of the arbitrary removal of Type 1 font support in LibreOffice 5.3+
I have been looking for an alternative word processor which retains
support.
Examples of Type 1 fonts I would like to continue using include Bitstream
Charter and Courier 10 Pitch from package xfonts-scalable.
AbiWord 3.0.2 on Debian 9 (stretch) supported these fonts, but they are
missing in AbiWord 3.0.4 on Debian 11 (bullseye).
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I installed the package abiword expecting to find the above-mentioned
fonts,
however they are missing from the font selection menu.
Steps I tried which were not effective include:
- Reinstalling the package xfonts-scalable,
- Manually refreshing the font cache both as user and as root,
- Creating symbolic links to the relevant .pfb files in
~/.local/share/fonts
I was able to verify that the aforementioned fonts show up in fc-list and
xfontsel and continue to appear in other applications such as GIMP which
support Type 1 fonts.
* What was the outcome of this action?
None of these actions made the fonts available in AbiWord.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
I had hoped that one of these actions would make the fonts available in
AbiWord.
Much Appreciated,
Taylor Alexander Brown
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.7
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-23-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages abiword depends on:
ii abiword-common 3.0.4~dfsg-3
ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.5
ii libabiword-3.0 3.0.4~dfsg-3
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u6
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.24-0+deb11u1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-6
ii libgcc-s1 10.2.1-6
ii libgcrypt20 1.8.7-6
ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.8-1
ii libgnutls30 3.7.1-5+deb11u3
ii libgoffice-0.10-10 0.10.48-1
ii libgsf-1-114 1.14.47-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.24-4+deb11u3
ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:2.0.6-4
ii libloudmouth1-0 1.5.3-6
ii libots0 0.5.0-6
ii libpng16-16 1.6.37-3
ii librdf0 1.0.17-1.1+b1
ii libreadline8 8.1-1
ii librevenge-0.0-0 0.0.4-6+b1
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.72.0-2
ii libstdc++6 10.2.1-6
ii libtelepathy-glib0 0.24.1-3
ii libtidy5deb1 2:5.6.0-11
ii libwmf0.2-7 0.2.8.4-17
ii libwpd-0.10-10 0.10.3-1
ii libwpg-0.3-3 0.3.3-1
ii libxml2 2.9.10+dfsg-6.7+deb11u4
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2+deb11u2
Versions of packages abiword recommends:
ii abiword-plugin-grammar 3.0.4~dfsg-3
ii aspell-en [aspell-dictionary] 2018.04.16-0-1
ii fonts-liberation 1:1.07.4-11
ii poppler-utils 20.09.0-3.1+deb11u1
abiword suggests no packages.
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