[PLUG] Why Do Fonts Look Bad in Linux?

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Nathan Meyers wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 01:26:33PM -0800, Robert wrote:
> > My Fonts look bad, with some in the various web browsers unreadable.
> 
> The full explanation for crappy fonts is way more information than you
> need :-), but check whether you have abiword installed - it installs
> some truly ugly fonts that end up matching many font requests from many
> applications. If you don't need it, this would be a good time to nuke it.

  This comment has appeared here several times. I'd like to try AbiWord so
is there a way to install it to use existing fonts rather than its own?

Thanks,

Rich