Re: Odd effect of running AbiWord


Subject: Re: Odd effect of running AbiWord
From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 12:40:47 CDT


From: Pierre Abbat <phma@oltronics.net>

> I have two AbiWord instances up, one in English and one in French, for taking
> screenshots. I then opened a web page in kwrite, which is set to 12-point
> Courier, and the font looks different than when I'm not running Abiword. What's
> worse, the characters are different widths depending on the syntax
> highlighting, which they shouldn't be.
>

I have observed the same problem. I think that AbiWord script
reloads some fonts that have been previously loaded by the xserver
but using its own font files, which are different from those the
system uses otherwise.

Tomas



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