Re: AW on RedHat 8.0 problems

From: Carla Schroder (carla@bratgrrl.com)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 21:36:28 EDT

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    On Thursday 24 October 2002 12:26, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
    > On Thursday October 24 2002 02:20 pm, Carla Schroder wrote:
    > > On Thursday 24 October 2002 07:01, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
    > > > Hi,
    > >
    > > Not only Abiword, but Gnumeric, and Konsole is odd too. It is part of
    > > KDE, which is built on Qt.
    > >
    > > Here are screenshots, I put this all in an email to Red Hat, 'cause it
    > > sure looks like a Red hat issue:
    > >
    > > http://www.bratgrrl.com/abiword.png
    > > http://www.bratgrrl.com/gnumeric.png
    > > http://www.bratgrrl.com/openoffice.png
    > > http://www.bratgrrl.com/konsole.png
    > >
    > > Try printing a man page, it comes out total gobbledegook.
    >
    > Hi,
    > For curiousity sake, I asked this in gnumeric mailing list, and here is the
    > reply I got from one of the developers. Please let me know if you tried the
    > solution and worked. As I said in previous posting, I decided to downgrade
    > to RH 7.3 due to these problems, thus I don't have RH 8.0 installed to play
    > around at the moment.
    >
    > By the way, where to Redhat did you send your e-mail? Do you file a bug in
    > their bugzilla? If you do I am interested in watching their comment/reply
    > to the bugzilla.
    >
    > Thanks.
    > RDB
    >
    > On Thursday October 24 2002 10:43 am, Jody Goldberg wrote:
    > > My first suspicion would be freetype. We've had several reports of
    > > crashing from RH8 systems when people print. The version of
    > > freetype shipping with rh8 (2.1.2) is known to be borked. RH tried
    > > to patch it, but appears to have missed a few things. My suggestion
    > > would be to look for an update to freetype, or downgrade to 2.1.1

    Thanks, I'll give the freetype fix a try. Abiword is my fave wordprocessor, I
    aint giving it up. Being an ace computer journalist-type person, I go through
    their media relations. I don't use bugzilla. 

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