From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 14:14:12 EST
Hi Busmanus,
You might try running 'fc-cache' as the root user.
This may fix the problem.
Sorry about the other bugs. If you have a copy of your
old font, maybe you could go to bugzilla.abisource.com
and file a bug there. With some luck, we'll have a
chance to look at it.
Thanks,
Dom
--- busmanus <busmanus.lk_at_freemail.hu> wrote:
> Greetings to everyone,
>
> I received and compiled abiword-2.0.0 under Woody-r1
> with the latest fribidi release (version 0.10.4?,
> I'm not sure)
> render 0.8, xrender 0.83, fontconfig 2.2.0,
> glib-2.2.3,
> pango-1.2.5, atk-1.2.4 (I think) the latest gtk+
> (2.2.4(?)) and
> gucharmap 1.0.0. Man, it is truly impressive,
> especially if you are
> interested in human languages!
>
> But after all I'm writing because of a problem, so
> let's get to the
> point.
>
> My hardship is, that I was trying to use a custom
> ttf font with the new
> AbiWord, but instead of reading the glyphs that were
> in the font, it
> presented me with some (incomplete) fallback set,
> that wasn't really
> suitable for my purpose. This font was usable with
> all other programs
> I tried it with, including the copy of gucharmap
> that I linked abiword
> against, although I was aware, that it is
> incorrectly coded and only
> half-fixed with pfaedit to map the characters I
> needed to their proper
> Unicode code points.
>
> So I tried to fix my font, apparently successfully,
> with a fresh version
> of pfaedit and some manual hacking of the .sfd files
> pfaedit uses.
> But...
> I can only use the repaired font in AbiWord, if I
> give it a new name to
> be used in the drop-down font-selection list. If I
> use the old name,
> Abiword resorts to the old fallback glyph set,
> probably saved in some
> cache on the filesystem, or to plain circles. My
> question is, how I can
> delete this cache, or whatever it is, and force
> Abiword to read in
> my font file instead of it. The menus of the program
> have nothing like
> this, or I missed it.
>
> Regards,
>
> busmanus
>
>
>
>
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