Re: Rendering problem with AbiWord

Robert said:
>
> Greetings
>
> I am having trouble with creating or reading abiword documents. I
> believe the problem started wiht the recent Xorg update but cannot be
> sure.
>
> I am running FreeBSD 7.2 pre-release and all ports are up to date. I
> have tried re-intalling abiword from ports and have also re-installed
> as a package (pkg_add -r). The results are unchanged.
>
> When I start a new document, the cursor is a dot instead of a vericle
> line. The first character that I type looks fine but all following
> charaters render on top of each other. With a new screen, if I
> repeatedly press the space key the cursor moves less than a mm with
> each press. Opening an existing document is also messed up. All
> characters are bunched together and unreadable.
>
> I am at a loss. I have tried different formats, fonts, sizes and every
> other thing I can think of without solution.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Robert

Hi Robert,

I had the exact same problem on ArchLinux. Nothing fixed it until I
installed a whole bunch of TTF fonts for another reason. I think it
happens because of screwed up font metrics in one of the XOrg default
fonts.

Hope that helps,

-- 
Kio Smallwood
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