Subject: Re: Font Problem (& FAQ suggestion)
From: Larry Reznick (lreznick@interactdevices.com)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2001 - 15:51:31 CDT
I ran into the same error when I started abiword. Your question came
just before I did that, so I looked more closely at the solution you
quoted. First, the solution talks about adding the line
Load "type1"
to one or both of two files. I don't know whether the
/etc/X11/XF86Config file needs the addition, but there are no "load"
instructions anywhere in that file. However, the file,
/etc/X111/XF86Config-4, has such lines. Where to add the line, though,
I'm uncertain. I tried adding it in the "Module" section, with the other
Load lines, but that didn't help. I didn't want to mess around with that
file, which handles all the X configuration.
So, I followed the secondary recommendation instead. As root, I ran the
command,
chkfontpath -a /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts
which adds that fonts path to the list of font dirs in the file,
/etc/X11/fs/config. If you'll check that file after running the command,
you'll see the new .../AbiSuite/fonts dir in there. (You can remove a
dir from that list using -r instead of -a.)
I hope that helps.
--Larry
Roger Taylor wrote:
> Hello, I recently upgraded AbiWord via Ximian Red Carpet, and am now
> getting a font error.
>
> I checked here ( http://www.abiword.com/support/faq/ ) and found a
> "solution".
>
>
> "AbiWord could not load [-*-Times New Roman-...]"
> If you recieve the message "AbiWord could not load the following
> font or fontset from the X Window System display server,
> [-*-Times New Roman-regular-r-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*]" or something
> similar try the following, add the line load "type1" to your
> /etc/X11/XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file. (You will need to do
> this as root.)
> You may also want to try the following command if you still have
> problems
> /usr/sbin/chkfontpath -a /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts. Again, you
> will need to do this as root. Check the AbiSuite directory path
> as it may have been changed by the packager depending of the
> distribution.
>
> Unfortunately, the directions are a little too vague for this newbie
> Linux user.
>
> How exactly would I go about entering the line: load "type1" into
> the Xf86Config file? It would be extremely helpful if there were a
> link to a step-by-step example of how this may be done.
>
> Thank you.
>
> -Roger
>
>
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