Re: Abiword can't open Ted RTF

Hi Mark.

The example file you provided 'Just Works' on here Fedora 8. My
educated guess: your fontconfig installation/setup doesn't properly
substitute the missing font (for a font that is actually available and
readably).

Cheers!
  Marc

On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 23:33 -0800, Mark Richardson wrote:
> Greetings, all.
>
> I've been experiencing that (Debian?) bug that causes Abiword 2.6.4 to
> compose garbage unless msttcorefonts are installed on a Linux system
> (I'm using antiX Mepis). Installing the fonts fixes the problem for all
> subsequent documents. But: Any RTF documents already composed by older
> apps like Ted still open as garbage. I'm attaching a document to
> illustrate.
>
> I'm thinking the problem is that Ted requires a different font set
> (xfonts-100dpi-transcoded and xfonts-75dpi-transcoded). Somehow the
> 2.6.x Abiword series cannot deal with that set? Well, there is one fix
> for this: Opening such a document in Abiword, saving all, and then
> clicking the "normal" setting in the drop-down style menu restores the
> file.
>
> The fix works fine, but it's cumbersome. Anyone using the 2.6.x
> Abiword series to access an archive of RTF files composed on an app
> like Ted will encounter real inconvenience and frustration (especially
> if they don't know the fix). So I'm wondering whether I've diagnosed
> the problem accurately, and whether there's an easier fix.
>
> Even though Ted is pretty outdated, it's still widely used on minimalist
> systems like DSL (and on BSD). Users may have used it to produce a lot
> of archived RTF files. And perhaps the same problem affects apps other
> than Ted.
>
> Can anything be done about this?

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Received on Thu Nov 13 17:49:25 2008