Yes, the fonts we ship are a collection from GhostScript. In fact,
any Type 1 fonts that you have are usable within AbiWord. Adding
them is usually only a matter of changing /usr/local/AbiSuite/fonts/fonts.dir
(or /usr/share/abisuite/fonts/fonts.dir) to know of the location of
your fonts. AbiWord will look for both the font data file (it will
usually be named with an extension of .pfa or .pfb) and the metrics
file (usually named with an extension of .afm).
AbiWord now ignores the embedded objects in Microsoft Word files.
This will change in the future, when we make more general our
embedded objects architecture. I do believe wv (the library AbiWord
uses for Microsoft Word import) does a good job of extracting
the proper contents of embedded OLE objects, even Windows Metafiles.
-- Shaw Terwilliger