From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Aug 14 2003 - 16:37:28 EDT
Hi Raphael,
AbiWord on Unix actually knows < 0 about locating,
loading, and using fonts. It leaves all of this up to
FontConfig. Which means that FontConfig on box A is
probably set up slightly differently than FontConfig
on box B.
Dom
--- Raphael Finkel <raphael@cs.uky.edu> wrote:
> I cannot figure out why AbiWord shows me the Arial
> and Lucida Sans
> Unicode fonts when I run it on machine A but not
> machine B.
>
> A and B are identical in every respect I have looked
> at:
>
> ldconfig -p shows the same output.
> /usr/X11/lib/fonts/ have identical content.
> printenv shows the same content (except for host
> name and ssh session
> identifier).
> ldd `which abiword` shows identical output.
>
> Many files are actually shared by A and B, mounting
> from a common
> server:
>
> All of the AbiWord executables and libraries.
> libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
> libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
> libenchant.so.0
> libfribidi.so.0
>
> I run AbiWord on both A and B from an X session on
> machine D, so they
> see identical X configuration, I should think.
>
> I cannot figure out where AbiWord is finding Lucida
> Sans Unicode on
> machine A!
>
> Raphael
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