On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Itai Segall wrote: > Hi. > > I know this matter has been discussed at least twice so far on this > list, but I still can't seem to make hebrew work properly in AbiWord. > > I'm using AbiWord version 1.0.2, compiled with bidi enabled, and locale > set to he_IL.ISO-8859-8. > > First of all, I had to disable "font warning on startup", because of the > annoying "can't modify your font path" error on startup. > Now I installed a few fonts, including Win's Miriam and David, in > /usr/local/share/AbiSuite/fonts/ISO-8859-8, and updated the fonts.dir > and fonts.scale.
Did you use abiword's scripts to create Type1 fonts from the TTFs? /path/to/ttfadmin.sh /usr/local/share/AbiSuite/fonts/ISO-8859-8 ISO-8859-8 > > The above two fonts appear in the fonts list when I run Abiword, but > still no hebrew. These two specific fonts show blank squares instead of > hebrew characters, and all other fonts (for example, Times New Roman) > show gibrish (german-like e's and a's with dots and lines above). > > PS. I'm using Redhat 7.3 and KDE 3.0.0, and have no problems with hebrew > in other places. > > > Thanks, > Itai > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
