Re: AbiWord questions I cannot answer myself

From: Shad Van Den Hul (alose@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 18:07:31 EST

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    Rich Shepard wrote:
    > There are two issues I'd like to resolve. The first is quite minor, but
    > the second keeps me from using AbiWord as my administrative writing tool.
    > I've read all the docs and FAQs I found on the Web site without seeing any
    > answers, so I'd appreciate some pointers. I've installed abiword-1.0.3-1 on
    > my Red Hat 7.3 systems (2.4.19 kernel).
    >
    > First: I cannot invoke AbiWord without the splash screen or font warning,
    > despite turning them off in the preferences dialog box. Sometimes, over
    > lunch, I'll play with it a few times, but like the magician's candle that
    > cannot be extinguished, there they are the next time I fire it up. What
    > might I be doing improperly?
    >
    > Second: How do I add fonts to the AbiWord stable? I have several Type1
    > (postscript) fonts installed that I use for business correspondence. One
    > typeface, Baker Signet, is our company logotype and is on the letterhead.
    > I'd like to add this typeface and a half-dozen others so they're visible and
    > selectable. What do I read that tells me how to add fonts?
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Rich
    >
    > Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
    >
    > Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
    > 2404 SW 22nd Street | Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 | U.S.A.
    > + 1 503-667-4517 (voice) | + 1 503-667-8863 (fax) | rshepard@appl-ecosys.com
    > http://www.appl-ecosys.com/
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    If you have heavily customized Abiword this will be painful, but delete
      ~/.Abisuite/AbiWord.profile for solving the unchanged settings.
    Someone might have a more elegant solution, but recreating the config
    file should fix it if it is a corrupted file problem.

    For the fonts issue:
    http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/problems/problemsfonts.html#adding_removing
    I have had mixed results with this in the past. 

    -- 
Shad Van Den Hul
Just a Tuna in the Sea of Life

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