Subject: Re: how to add new fonts?
From: Han The Thanh (thanh@informatics.muni.cz)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2000 - 06:00:49 CDT
Hi Martin,
> Did you write pdftex? That's an awesome program and I use it
> regularly.
yes pdftex is my work. I am glad to know you find it useful.
> What you did is what I recommended to someone else. To get a font to work
> you need at least the following.
>
> It has to be Type 1.
> You need both *.afm and *.pfa font files.
> You need to include *regular-r*, *bold-r*, *regular-i*, *bold-i* in the
> fonts.dir file. These entries however can all point to the same file (like
> "Symbol" and "Standard Symbols" in the standard abiword fonts.dir).
>
> There may be some extra magic required :-(
>
> To ask for multiple font paths you need to edit
>
> $HOME/.AbiSuite/AbiWord.profile
>
> and in the _custom_ scheme and add a line like this:
>
> UnixFontPath="/usr/share/abisuite/fonts;$HOME/X11/fonts/Type1"
>
> With the directories sperated by semi-colons.
>
> This works with the latest CVS Abiword but I'm not sure if it works in
> 0.7.10.
>
> We will eventually make this available via the AbiWord Options dialog but
> we haven't done this yet. Feel free to submit a patch :-)
thank for the instructions. There are some points I found useful:
1) it seems that $HOME is not expanded, so I had to replace it by
/home/thanh to get it work
2) the user font dir must be added in X11 font path before running abiword
I can then select and use my new font; however printing to PS doesn't
work. For some reason all chars are replaced by the degree char (176 ascii
code in isolatin1). In case you want to have a look, I will put the fonts +
test file somewhere on the web.
I like the idea of AbiWord to be opensource and cross-platform.
Unfortunately I don't have time to get involved in its development at the
moment.
Regards,
Thanh
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