Re: Fonts, RH6, and 0.7 rpms
Nathan@unos.net
Wed, 26 May 1999 09:37:35 -0500 (CDT)
On 24 May, Shaw Terwilliger wrote:
> 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).
Actually, RedHat 6.0 *wants* you to use xfs, but it doesn't whack with
your XF86Config, so the local paths stay there and should still be used
by the X server. So that *shouldn't* break when you upgrade (no
guarantees, clearly), so I'm not sure that's a related problem...
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