Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 50877
Recent version of abiword not working
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:35:28 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010725 Description of problem: Please add the line "load "type1" in XF86Config-4 by default....like this program like abiword or openffice could use TrueType Font You should upgrade abiword to 0.9, it's far more better than 0.7.... How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install abiword 0.9 2. 3. Actual Results: Problem with Times New Roman Font... Expected Results: Launching Additional info: Look at I get an error message "AbiWord could not load [-*-Times New Roman-regular-r-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*]" on http://www.abisource.com/faquser.phtml#2.7.1 I think it's an easy bug you could recover...
Please excuse the AOLism, but "me too" ... I had to add this and restart X before I could use Type1 fonts for anti-aliased xterms. I'd also assumed that this would work "out of the box" :o) Once that's done, and XftConfig fiddled with, and xftcache run, its sweet.
load type1 will not be added to the configs. Red Hat Linux by default is configured to use the xfs font server, and this will not change. xfs is used for various advantageous reasons. If you have enhancements to XftConfig, etc, please provide detailed examples, etc. and I will investigate integrating them. If type1 fonts are not available, it is some other problem, and I will look into it.
I know there are reasons for using xfs, but this didn't work without the "type1" module loaded in the server. xfs logs a message when it loads: Aug 17 08:17:29 billc xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 (unreadable) But the X server apparently reads it fine.
Hi guys, I'm back from holidays...so I can try to explain a few.... How could I add a module in the xfs config file ? The part where I added the line in XF86Config-4 was : Section "Module" Load "GLcore" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "pex5" Load "dri" Load "glx" Load "pex5" Load "record" Load "xie" Load "type1" # Here 's my addition !!!! EndSection Have a look on the link I gave you... Jean-Yves LENHOF
I think billc@netcomuk.co.uk give the good reason : xfs is not loading Type 1 fonts.... Extract of my /var/log/messages : sep 2 19:47:53 mylinux atd: Lancement atd succeeded Sep 2 19:47:53 mylinux xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 (unreadable) sep 2 19:47:54 mylinux linuxconf: Running Linuxconf hooks: succeeded
This would imply that the fonts.dir file is bad in the Type1 directory. Run mkfontdir in the Type1 directory, and the fonts should work with xfs. Again, the "load type1" in the XFree86 config file, does not have any effect on xfs. Make sure your font path is configured in the XF86Config-4 to use xfs as is the default. I will look into this to ensure that the Type1 font is working properly.
mharris: could you please check this out and close this if ok?
CLosing CURRENTRELEASE of RHL 7.3