On Thursday 24 October 2002 07:01, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:

> Hi,
> I am wondering if this is actually the problem with RH distro rather than
> Abiword. What fonts do you get in the fonts list in Abiword? I don't even
> see Times New Roman in the font list, although I installed Abiword my self,
> and install the abiword-font rpm. Curious..
> The same set of installation in RH 7.3 brings everything up just fine.
>
> Another thing  that may or may not be a related problem. Do you have
> gnumeric installed? If you do, please check it if it suffers from the same
> problem (font spacing). My gnumeric (installed from RH distro CD) in Redhat
> 8.0 has the same problem as abiword's. The problem does not appear as bad
> when I choose font Times New Roman in gnumeric. It happens with other fonts
> though.
>
> Is this Redhat font server problem may be? Am I correct to assume that both
> gnumeric and abiword was developed using the same API (ie GTK ??) ?

Not only Abiword, but Gnumeric, and Konsole is odd too. It is part of KDE, 
which is built on Qt.

Here are screenshots, I put this all in an email to Red Hat, 'cause it sure 
looks like a Red hat issue:

http://www.bratgrrl.com/abiword.png
http://www.bratgrrl.com/gnumeric.png
http://www.bratgrrl.com/openoffice.png
http://www.bratgrrl.com/konsole.png

Try printing a man page, it comes out total gobbledegook.
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