Subject: Re: Font problem
From: Tim LaDuca (tjl@141.com)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 16:37:42 CDT
add the line
Load "type 1"
to the modules section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. see
www.abisource.com/faquser.phtml for more info.
Cheers,
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Smith" <hjpsmith@earthlink.net>
To: <abiword-user@abisource.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 5:11 PM
Subject: Font problem
> Hi
>
> Just D/L'ed the GTK RPM for the latest stable (I am using RH7.1 Intel, KDE
> 2.1.1) Seemed to install with no hiccups at all.
>
> When I execute the script 'abiword' I get a message the it can't find the
> "Times New Roman" font, which indeed xfontsel can't find either.
>
> Checking the website, I saw that one needs to run xset to add the path to
the
> TrueType fonts. Since this is a dual boot and I have the windows VFAT
> partition mounted under RH7.1, it seemed this would be simple but I did
not
> get it to work. I tried all the combinations that seemed reasonable to no
> avail. Here is an example.
>
> [root@localhost hs]# xset +fp /win/win98/fonts
> X Error of failed request: 86
> Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath)
> Serial number of failed request: 9
> Current serial number in output stream: 11
>
> The xset man page seems to say that I did it right but clearly not so and
I
> did not find any explanation of the error codes.
>
> Could someone either tell me what I am doing wrong or point me to a page
> which would do the same? Thanks much!
>
> Cheers
>
> Henry
>
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