Hi Bronek,

sorry I have not been able to deal with your earlier emails, I was 
away for a while.

> Please, if there is a man or wooman who use to type and print
> documents in AbiWord using ISO-8859-2 char enc. (type1 or ttf fonts)
> and is satisfied with results, --- give me a hint!
> 
> I realy bag you to advise what to do. I'm now able to force abiword to
> use these fonts, I can type and see my native polish characters on the
> screen, but on prints I can only see a circles or crosses instead of
> diacritics characters.

Type 1 fonts: many of the commonly available free iso-8859-2 fonts 
are unfortunately broken. They were created by modifying the 
glyphs of iso-8859-1 fonts, but whoever done this failed to rename 
the glyphs to their correct PostScript names -- basically the font 
remains an iso-8859-1 font. This means that when AW looks for 
the Polish glyphs in the font, it does not find them. As a 
workaround you can create a custom u2g file for such fonts which 
associates the glyph names the font actually uses (which you will 
find in the font's afm file) with the required Unicode values; the u2g 
file needs to have same name as the font (times.pfa -> times.u2g), 
for format of the file see adobe-full.u2g that comes with the AW 
fonts.

TTF fonts: you need to run the ttfadmin.sh script specifying the 
correct encoding, in this case ISO-8859-2, this will create the 
required files automatically.

Tomas

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