Subject: Re: Font problems
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 15:15:13 CDT
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:35:09AM +1000, Geoffrey Norman Watson wrote:
>
> I have been using AbiWord at home on a Linux box. I now also want to use
> it at work. However there I am using a Windows 2000 box which runx Xwin32 as
> the X server, and connects to the main computer which is running solaris.
> I have got a solaris version of AbiWord OK, but I have a problem with the
> fonts. The Linux version of AbiWord has a font directory with fonts in afm/pfa
> format, but the Xwin32 server (on the windows box) need them in bdf, pcf or
> fon format.
>
> Does anyone know how I can either
>
> - convert from one format to the other
> - get a ready-made set of AbiWord fonts in bdf, pcf or fon formt
> - substitute some other set of fonts for AbiWord to use
Unfortunately, there isn't a real solution to this problem. At least
not that I know of. TrueType and Type1 fonts have lots of info (for
printing) that we need and that other formats don't have. So short of
getting Xwin32 to understand one of those formats, I don't think there
is much you can do.
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