i had this problem too, it turns our the default Xfree 4 setup doenst
setup all the font loaders, i had to add these lines and to the module
loading section
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "speedo"
Edit the XF86Config-4
Good luck,
Ken Swinton
On 28 Jan 2001 01:23:36 -0600, Bob Hartung wrote:
> Hi,
> Having a dickens of a time getting AbiWord to see its' fonts. They
> are installed - etc. The real question is the action of XFree86 as
> reported by xset q.
> After restarting the x-server 'xset q' reports that the directory of the
> abifonts '/usr/share/abisuite/fonts' is in the font path. After trying
> to start AbiWord, which invariably reports that Times New Roman does not
> exist even though it is in the directory and correctly reported in
> fonts.dir this font path is not reported if 'xset q' is run again.
> snip
