Whoops, replied only to Tzafrir. Message attached. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Hebrew fonts in Abiword - again Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 09:47:57 +0300 From: Itai Segall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > 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 > Yes, I have. Another thing I haven't mentioned, is that most of those fonts give me an error when selected: "AbiWord encountered errors parsing the font metrics file [ afm filename ] These errors were not fatal, but print metrics may be incorrect." ================================================================= 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]
