Subject: Re: Question for the FAQ?
From: Olivier Berger (olberger@club-internet.fr)
Date: Sun Feb 13 2000 - 09:39:44 CST
ctor@krixor.xy.org wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem starting up abiword...
>
> It says "could not load the following font" .. bla bla .. "Times New Roman"
> . bla bla
>
> I'm running it on a Solaris 7 box, exporting it to a Slackware 7. I receive
> the same error w/o exporting it. I've tried installting a font server on
> Slackware 7, but it helped nothing. I got every Slackware 7 font package
> installed, but the font doesn't seem to be installed (grepped in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/[subdir]/fonts.*) It doesn't seem to be installed on
> the Solaris-box either.
>
> I grabbed the binary pkg and used pkgadd to install.
>
> Other X applications work as expected.
>
> Pointers?
>
I have had the same problem and solved it by installing the unixfonts
tarball (found on the download site) on the system where my X server
runs.
If you have a look at the AbiWord script, it adds the
/usr/share/abisuite/fonts directory (or something like that) to the font
path with xset +pf...
But if the display is not on the same machine as the program (and the
fonts), the directory is empty on the X server's side... so xset +fp
cannot find them.
If you install the fonts in the same path as on the machine running
abiword, the xset should work OK, and the program launch.
I think this should be stated in the FAQ as I couldn't find it on the
site before realizing what the problem was...
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