Subject: Fw: Non Abi User
From: Serenade (blondsumtymz@home.com)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 12:09:40 CST
Get Me.... Off This List...PLEASE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Serenade" <blondsumtymz@home.com>
To: <al_shopov@web.bg>
Cc: <abiword-user@abisource.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 12:15 PM
Subject: Fw: Adding fonts problem
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexander Shopov" <al_shopov@web.bg>
> To: <abiword-user@abisource.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 3:48 AM
> Subject: Adding fonts problem
>
>
> > Hi guys,
> > I am sure somebody has asked similar questions but I could not find good
> > answer in the archives.
> > Ok - the problem - I want to add Type1 fonts to AbiWord.
> > I am using a RedHat6.2 system with HelixGnome.
> > AbiWord is their version - abisuite-0.7.11-0_helix_4.
> > Here come the questions.
> >
> > 1. fonts go in /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts.
> > Can I use pfb files or abiword accepts only pfa?
> > 2. fonts are declared in the
> > /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/fonst.dir file. Does it have the same
> > structure as the fonts.dir file for the X server?
> > 3. When I copy or symlink my afm & pfa font files to
> > /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/, declare them properly in
> > /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/fonts.dir (i.e. if I do xset fp+
> > /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/ && xset fp rehash - they appear to the X
> > server), my new fonts get displayed in the font drop dialogue of
> > abiword, but I cannot format text with these fonts on the screen - the
> > font dialogue says they are formatted with my font timeset for example,
> > but their oulines are of the default abiword font. What do I have to
> > check, etc.?
> > 4. Does abiword check the encoding part of the declaration of font in
> > fonts.dir?
> > can I use for example microsoft-cp1251, or I have to lie and use
> > adobe-fontspecific?
> > Regards: al_shopov
> >
>
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