Or you could just use the windows version
/me ducks. puts on flame retardant underwear :P a church secratary is not very likely to be using Linux, let alone installing the latest version of Abiword. That said installing a Linux distributions from scratch is remarkably friendly. i wonder if Abiword still fails horrilby to run on Wine ... (it has been about 10 months since i last tried) i would have sworn that the XX-Arial fix had been applied maybe there has not been a release since then (or maybe it is included in 0.99.4) On 4 Apr 2002, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > Date: 04 Apr 2002 12:05:03 +0100 > From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Loss of enthusiasim for AbiWord > > On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 11:46, Sam Trenholme wrote: > > * This bug does not affect anything if people have > > other Arial, Helevetica, etc. fonts installed. > > Not true, AbiWord-...-Arial comes before Adobe-Arial, for instance. > > > * The AbiWord fonts are in the font path only when > > AbiWord is running; when it is not running, the > > AbiWord fonts are not added. > > This is also not true. > If you use xfs, you usually add font paths to its config. And the fonts > rest there untill the end. > > If you haven't edited XF86Config-4 and add > Load "type1" # Adobe Type 1 font handler > to Section "Module", abiword won't even work (most distributers config > through xfs, and leave commented out Type1 native support in the X > server!) > > So, the user either is not a church secretary and will be able to do > those things, or the user will use a config tool that will most likely > change xfs's config, thus affecting all fonts in the system. > > This is an important bug and, IMHO, a showstopper. However, I'm not in > the majority in here. > > Sam, in your configuration, maybe you do not experience this. > Most experienced users know how to work around but most users do not. > + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown > + Whatever you do will be insignificant, > | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi > + So let's do it...?
