Re: Fonts

Ian wrote:
> Dear Abiworders
>
> Man this font thing is really hard.
>
> I have an X-server and an X-terminal, both Slackware 10.1. The server serves
> fonts (xfs) and Abiword 2.4.1. At the server, text in Abiword looks fine on
> the screen, truetype and everything. At the X-terminal text in Abiword looks
> weird. The text looks mostly OK, but a few words look like they are missing
> letters. The letters are not missing because you can step the cursor through
> them, which on the screen looks like stepping though blank space on the
> screen. The letters (blank space) can also be selected, copied and pasted.
> Just that you cannot see them. Ahh. Why?
>
> The X-terminal is definitely getting fonts from the X-Server, because truetype
> fonts only exist on the server, and I can see them on the X-terminal. The
> documents I have been accessing are those provided with Abiword.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Ian
>
> Slackware 10.1
> Abiword 2.4.1 (homemade)
> X.org 6.8.1

This might be the same problem described in Bug 7149
(http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7149).
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Received on Tue Nov 29 01:31:06 2005