From: Chris Winne (chris@micro-mania.net)
Date: Mon Feb 18 2002 - 02:34:44 GMT
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:59:27AM -0000, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>
> > If you flip it arround I have no trouble.
> > Make the AbiFont installation optional.
> >
> > Make sure the default installation does not have the problem and
> > I'll get off this issue.
>
> That is not viable; AW will not run without its fonts setup. If the
> default installation did not include the fonts, then the user would
> not be able to run AW after s/he installs it (that also means no
> easy access to the online help). S/he would have to set up the
> fonts by hand before AW would start up, and that is far from
> straight forward (I know, because I get lot of emails from non-
> English users who need to set up the extra font directories by
> hand). If we do not install the fonts by default, we will be inundated
> by tons of user emails requiring assistance to setup the fonts. On
> the other hand, it is _very_ simple to remove fonts from the existing
> installation, and use the existing installation as a template for
> adding different fonts.
>
> What we probably should do is to run some pre-install script that
> would ascertain whether the fonts we are planning to install are
> already found in the path, and if so point the user to detailed
> instrucitons on removing our fonts (I would be reluctant to give a
> choice not to install the fonts for the same reasons I do not want
> the fonts not installed by default).
>
> Tomas
Perhaps it might be useful to some people to have somewhere, either
in setup instruction, or probably more usefully in the
startup script (anyone who does something non-standard would most
likely read that before searching FAQs), a sentence that describes
how to use abiword on a remote host (setup fonts).
In other words, explicitly state that the fontpath refers to the host
machine, not the server.
As I have given up compiling abiword on AIX now that I have managed to
get a perfectly good old IBM-RS6000 machine running Suse-Linux, we use
the Linux machine to serve applications that only a GNU/AIX wizard (not
me) with more time on their hands than is good for anyone could compile
on AIX.
I ran into a bit of a problem when abiword couldn't find the fonts.
First, I manually added the fonts in /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts to the
AIX fontpath where our 7.13 fonts lived, then realized (feeling foolish)
that the newest version AbiWord fonts lived (by default) in
/usr/local/share/AbiSuite/fonts. Once I moved them over to the AIX
machines, all is sweet.
A buried non-pertinent note. Any use for this Linux box (Suse 7.3, updated,
on AIX 43P 7248 -- PowerPC) as a Tinderbox system? Can't tell if
there are any of like mode there or not, the link attempts to find
www2.abisource.com, which times out. Also, we could probably build rpm's,
even serve some. (It's a fast university connection -- ku.wru.umt.edu).
Chris Winne
stupidly that
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