Re: abiword 1.99.6 dies: All font failbacks failed

From: Mark Gilbert (markgilbert@hotpop.com)
Date: Sun Sep 07 2003 - 15:39:22 EDT

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    if fc-list returns nothing, fc-cache, then list again. if still
    nothing, your config is wrong or you have no fonts.

    Regards
    -MG

    On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 14:32, Leonid Petrov wrote:
    > Hello!
    >
    > I have compiled abiword 1.99.6 from source code, but it dies when I attempt
    > to start it:
    >
    > /tmp> abiword --version
    > 1.99.6
    > /tmp> abiword
    >
    > ** (abiword:21388): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Sans 10" falling back to "Sans 10"
    >
    > ** (abiword:21388): WARNING **: Couldn't load font "Sans 10" falling back to "Sans 10"
    >
    > ** (abiword:21388): WARNING **: All font failbacks failed!!!!
    > /tmp>
    >
    > I learned from
    > http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/2003/Aug/0086.html that
    > abiword knows nothing about fonts paths and relies on FontConfig. I have
    > fontconfig-2.2.90, and my file /etc/fonts/fonts.conf seems to be sane.
    >
    > Lines 21-25 out of 304:
    > ...
    > <!-- Font directory list configured on Sun Mar 16 13:13:33 EST 2003 -->
    >
    > <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
    > <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
    > <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
    > ...
    >
    > These directories exist and, except the last one, have a lot of fonts.
    > What should I do?
    >
    > Leonid

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