From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Thu Apr 04 2002 - 06:21:23 EST
Or you could just use the windows version
/me ducks. puts on flame retardant underwear
:P
a church secratary is not very likely to be using Linux, let alone
installing the latest version of Abiword. That said installing a Linux
distributions from scratch is remarkably friendly.
i wonder if Abiword still fails horrilby to run on Wine ... (it has been
about 10 months since i last tried)
i would have sworn that the XX-Arial fix had been applied
maybe there has not been a release since then (or maybe it is included in
0.99.4)
On 4 Apr 2002, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> Date: 04 Apr 2002 12:05:03 +0100
> From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@1407.org>
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Loss of enthusiasim for AbiWord
>
> On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 11:46, Sam Trenholme wrote:
> > * This bug does not affect anything if people have
> > other Arial, Helevetica, etc. fonts installed.
>
> Not true, AbiWord-...-Arial comes before Adobe-Arial, for instance.
>
> > * The AbiWord fonts are in the font path only when
> > AbiWord is running; when it is not running, the
> > AbiWord fonts are not added.
>
> This is also not true.
> If you use xfs, you usually add font paths to its config. And the fonts
> rest there untill the end.
>
> If you haven't edited XF86Config-4 and add
> Load "type1" # Adobe Type 1 font handler
> to Section "Module", abiword won't even work (most distributers config
> through xfs, and leave commented out Type1 native support in the X
> server!)
>
> So, the user either is not a church secretary and will be able to do
> those things, or the user will use a config tool that will most likely
> change xfs's config, thus affecting all fonts in the system.
>
> This is an important bug and, IMHO, a showstopper. However, I'm not in
> the majority in here.
>
> Sam, in your configuration, maybe you do not experience this.
> Most experienced users know how to work around but most users do not.
> + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
> + Whatever you do will be insignificant,
> | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
> + So let's do it...?
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