[PLUG] fonts in Redhat 7.3

[Eric Jahn]

Thanks for the help.  I fixed the problem.  I mistakenly installed the
75 dpi fonts in addition to the 100 dpi fonts.  When I took out the 75,
everything works fine.  Fortunately, I don't install abiword because of
the font problem it has.  Has anyone noticed any improvement in font
appearance when installing Crossover's true type fonts? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Hall [mailto:mph at puddingbowl.org] 
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 8:27 AM
To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
Subject: Re: [PLUG] fonts in Redhat 7.3


I had the same thing, and it was the usual "AbiWord's god-awful
knock-off truetype" issue.

You can:

a.) Remove AbiWord if you don't use it

b.) Remove the entry for the AbiWord fonts in /etc/X11/fs/config by
commenting out this line:

/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts

Which will at least keep them out of your way until you use AbiWord and
it goes ahead and adds them to your path anyhow

c.) Get the real Times New Roman, Arial, and a few others that AbiWord
fakes and put them in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF since Red Hat has at
least jimmied the aliases on AbiWord's fonts so they'll be used after
the real ones if it can find them. If you must use AbiWord, this is your
best solution.

Between antiword for catting out the .doc's I get to a text file and
OpenOffice for reading .rtf's and others, AbiWord has found its way off
my machine.  Too bad, since it's a passable WordPad substitute, but the
entire font situation (two years in the making, and stubbornly stuck to
despite consistently being the most voted-on bug) will keep it off my
machines until they get around to introducing proper freetype support.

The bug report itself on this particular issue makes for some
interesting reading:

http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1030

I sympathize with the developers, who aren't running Burger King
regardless of the gifts they bring to the table, but the entire debate
feels a little mule-headed nonetheless.

On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 01:26, Eric Jahn wrote:
> After upgrading from 7.2, I noticed that fonts in mozilla and in
> OpenOffice 1.0 look bad (almost unreadable).  Is there something that
> can be done to fix this?
> 
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