After using abisuite-0.7.0-1.i386.rpm to install abiword on a newly
installed Red Hat 6.0 system, abiword refused to run. When attempting
to launch abiword by typing "abiword &" at the command prompt, it
displayed a splash screen and the main editor window along with a
message box saying:
Could not load X font:
-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-10-0-0-0-p-56-iso8859-1
Using xfontsel, the closest font I could find was:
-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-p-56-iso8859-1
Seeing that, as of version 6.0, Red Hat uses "a font server independent
of the X server to render fonts." I added /usr/share/abisuite/fonts to
the catalogue section of the /etc/X11/fs/config file and restarted xfs.
This enabled xfontsel to see fonts from the abisource foundry, but did
not solve the problem launching abiword.
Subsequently, information in the May 1999 abiword-dev mail archive
enabled me to at least get abiword started. John Tunison wrote:
Hi all,
I had a bear of a time getting Abiword 0.7 RPMs to work. I've just
upgraded to RH6.
Every time I ran abiword, it gave a handful of messages stating that
it couldn't find a helvetica font. After inspecting
/usr/share/abisuite/fonts, I added the following line to the fonts.dir
file:
n019003l.pfa -AbiSource-Helvetica-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
Note the 'a' on the end of 'Helvetica'. I don't know if this is the
correct fix, but abiword now runs on my system.
I'm not on the list, so please cc replies to me.
John Tunison
To get abiword up and running, it was necessary for me to edit fonts.dir
in a similar manner.
Joel Schneider
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