Re: AW on RedHat 8.0 problems

From: Reuben D. Budiardja (reubendb@innovativethought.com)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 10:01:57 EDT

  • Next message: Carla Schroder: "Re: AW on RedHat 8.0 problems"

    On Wednesday October 23 2002 08:49 pm, Carla Schroder wrote:
    > On Monday 21 October 2002 08:05, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
    > > Hi, Just curious, do you have problem that there is a large space between
    > > each character in Abiword, for example when I typed, "abcde", AW in RH
    > > 8.0 displays something like "a b c d e". This happened even with the
    > > AW version shipped with RH 8.0
    > > BTW, I decided to downgraded to RH 7.3 because there just so many little
    > > annoying things that I can't fixed quickly with RH 8.0. The abiword
    > > problem being one of them.
    >
    > I couldn't get Abiword to work right on RH8 at all- not installed from the
    > RH CDs, not installed from RPM, not built from source. Not only did it do
    > the same weird monospacing you described, it would not word-wrap, and
    > printing was unpredictable. Abiword has been my primary word processor for
    > quite awhile now, I hope these oddities get worked out.

    Hi,
    I am wondering if this is actually the problem with RH distro rather than
    Abiword. What fonts do you get in the fonts list in Abiword? I don't even see
    Times New Roman in the font list, although I installed Abiword my self, and
    install the abiword-font rpm. Curious..
    The same set of installation in RH 7.3 brings everything up just fine.

    Another thing that may or may not be a related problem. Do you have gnumeric
    installed? If you do, please check it if it suffers from the same problem
    (font spacing). My gnumeric (installed from RH distro CD) in Redhat 8.0 has
    the same problem as abiword's. The problem does not appear as bad when I
    choose font Times New Roman in gnumeric. It happens with other fonts though.

    Is this Redhat font server problem may be? Am I correct to assume that both
    gnumeric and abiword was developed using the same API (ie GTK ??) ?

    RDB
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