Re: Fonts, RH6, and 0.7 rpms
Shaw Terwilliger (sterwill@postman.abisource.com)
Mon, 24 May 1999 11:28:52 -0500
John Tunison wrote:
> Every time I ran abiword, it gave a handful of messages stating that it
> couldn't find a helvetica font. After inspecting
> /usr/share/abisuite/fonts, I added the following line to the fonts.dir
> file:
>
> n019003l.pfa -AbiSource-Helvetica-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
>
> Note the 'a' on the end of 'Helvetica'. I don't know if this is the
> correct fix, but abiword now runs on my system.
Actually, this shouldn't be necessary, but it's a novel fix. :)
AbiWord was loading the Helvetica font (with the 'a' on the end)
assuming it will already be installed by your X server. I know Red Hat
6.0 has changed the way some of their fonts are installed (all are
through a font server now instead of local X server font paths).
This shouldn't pose a problem, but it's conceivable that the font I'm
looking for is now installed as something else. I've logged a bug
(for me, of course) on this.
--
Shaw Terwilliger
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