Subject: Re: TrueType fonts in AbiWord: Part Deux SOLVED!
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 18:50:13 CDT
HI Folks,
Tim could you provide me with an updated faquser.html? The file I
changed is actually on the AbiSource web page. gnome-print is unable to
handle true-type fonts right now. We should make sure "print-directly" for
the gnome build is included in abiword 0.91.
Cheers
Martin
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Tim LaDuca wrote:
> I couldn't believe you're reply (I had literally spent days trying to
> get this to work) but when you mentioned that the support files get
> generated during printing, that tipped me off, I need a GTK build! I've
> been so enamored of gnome-print I completely forgot about GTK.
>
> On the GTK build everything works as advertised(although I have run into
> a few problems here and there, I get a core-dump when you embed arial),
> so this is specifically a gnome-print problem. So all instructions are
> OK(my apologies to Tomas and to the person who wrote the TT FAQ answer).
> Well this makes me pretty happy, but probably not martin. Also, I don't
> see it mentioned anywhere, this process will fail if you don't run
> abiword as root.
>
> Thanks for your response!
>
> Cheers,
> Tim
>
> On 30 Jul 2001 11:02:26 +0100, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > I have just tried the Verdana font and it seems to work fine on my
> > machine. Also, the font support files do get generated
> > automatically on the first attempt to print.
> >
> > The fact that AW complains about the .afm file missing would
> > suggest that it cannot execute the ttftool program; this should be
> > reflected in the debug messages (if you run a debug build).
> >
> > Concerning the problems after running the ttfadmin.sh script
> > manually, is it possible that the problem is with your printer (e.g.,
> > that it cannot handle the Verdana font and so it substitutes
> > Times)? For instance, using GhostScript, it is necessary to either
> > register the font with GS, or to use the 'embed fonts' option in the
> > AW print dialogue; using a proper PS printer it is probably always
> > necessary to embed the fonts. See if the fonts directory contains
> > files verdana.afm, verdana.u2g and verdana.t42.
> >
> > Hope we can get soon to the bottom of this.
> >
> > Tomas
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Hi. The directions on our FAQ for installing TrueType fonts in AbiWord
> > > don't appear be completely accurate. I took some "properly installed"
> > > True Type fonts and dropped them in a new abisuite fonts folder. AbiWord
> > > than complained that it could not read the font metrics file for times
> > > new roman(*.afm file). Running the ttfadmin.sh script now distributed
> > > with AbiWord does fix this, but only, it seems for certain fonts. Fonts
> > > like Verdana and MS Trebuchet will appear on the screen fine but will
> > > print in the default Times New Roman Font only. So unless someone tells
> > > me I am doing something wrong, I am going to update the FAQ to reflect
> > > this.
> > >
> > > Also Tomas Frydrych's(I hope I got that right) instructions are no
> > > longer accurate either. AbiWord does not "automatically install support
> > > files". You have to manually run the ttfadmin.sh script manually on the
> > > Abisuite/fonts directory.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tim
> > >
> > > P.S. This process *DOES* work beautifully for fonts like Arial, Times
> > > and courier. Fonts look great on screen and print perfectly WYSIWYG
> > > AFICT.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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