Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Abiword/KWord cooperation - fonts fonts fonts]
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 09:25:29 CDT
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Eric W. Sink wrote:
>
> Shaw has posted very specific instructions in the past, so I am sure
> they are in the mailing list archive. I can't find the writeup I'm
> thinking of, but this one has some info:
>
> http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/99/September/0151.html
>
> AbiWord cannot use TrueType fonts or Type3 fonts or bitmap fonts or
> Hershey fonts or whatever else might be lying around. So far,
> it's Type1 only.
>
Yes. That's right. To register another font with abiword you need to put
your Type 1 fonts into the abiword fonts directory, generate the *.pfa
from the *.afm (I used the fonts howto to find out how to do this :-) and
then register the font in fonts.dir within the directory. Abiword requires
normal, bold, italic and bold-italic versions of all fonts. If you don't
have these just direct the fonts.dir descriptor to the same font.
"Standard Symbols" does this as there are no bold, italic or bold-italic
symbols from adobe.
If this is all done right, upon start up abi will pick up your new Type 1
font.
Good Luck. Sorry for the poor description. I don't know where the rpm puts
the abi fonts directory.
Martin
>
> >Well, does anybody know the answer?
> >
> >-------- Original Message --------
> >From: Donovan Rebbechi <elflord@panix.com>
> >Subject: Re: Abiword/KWord cooperation - fonts fonts fonts
> >Resent-From: koffice@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
> >To: koffice@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, [iso-8859-1] Joaquín Cuenca Abela wrote:
> >
> >Please let the two programs use the same font handling mechanisms !
> >The last thing the users enjoy is having to install typefaces once for
> >every application they use.
> >
> >PS: If any of the Abiword guys can drop a few hints to a poor hapless
> >dummy like me as to how to install
> >fonts into AbiWord, I would love to add it to my font HOWTO. My attempts
> >to add fonts thus far have proved unsuccesful ( I couldn't start Abi
> >after
> >I tried installing the typefaces ).
> >
> >--
> >Donovan, Font HOWTO author
>
>
> Eric W. Sink, Software Craftsman
> SourceGear Corporation
> eric@sourcegear.com
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