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hop-frog
08-08-2002, 06:26 PM
I installed abiword today

(it required the 2Mb abiword fonts package)

it messed up opera so that it used crummy ugly fonts that are hard to read.

I uninstalled abiword and the fonts in opera went back to normal.

Is there a way to install abiword so that it doesn't mess up the other programs' fonts like this?
Okie
08-08-2002, 09:07 PM
AbiWord fonts make most GTK based applications look worse than before AbiWord was installled, it does the same for mozilla for me...
windoze killa
08-08-2002, 09:51 PM
So if Abiword was installed as part of the initial installation and your fonts look crap in opera and mozilla then it might be an idea to remove abiword?????
hop-frog
08-11-2002, 10:24 PM
I need abiword though. Word Perfect 8 isn't available anymore and all of the other word processor suits are too bloated for my machine.
JohnT
08-11-2002, 10:44 PM
Would you consider Open Office too bloated?About a 55-60 mb download.
X_console
08-12-2002, 12:52 AM
How did you install AbiWord and Opera? I run both and they both look fine. I am using TrueType fonts though. Basically what I did was to get rid of the AbiWord font/ directory and to replace it with TrueType fonts. Now, it's been a while since I've done this so I don't remember the exact procedure, but once you've copied your TrueType fonts to the font/ directory, you need to convert them to the formats that AbiWord recognizes. AbiWord's bin/ directory has the tools you'll need to do this: pfa2afm, ttf2t42, and ttf2uafm. Running each command without arguments will produce the usage output.
hop-frog
08-12-2002, 01:30 AM
Originally posted by JohnT
Would you consider Open Office too bloated?About a 55-60 mb download.
Yes. Compare it to 3mb for abiword plus 2mb for the fonts.
and abiword does what I need, nothing more.

Thanks X_console. I'll give that a try.

btw, I installed with
rpm -i opera*
rpm -i abiword*
JohnT
08-12-2002, 09:26 AM
Originally posted by hop-frog

Yes. Compare it to 3mb for abiword plus 2mb for the fonts.
and abiword does what I need, nothing more.

Thanks X_console. I'll give that a try.

btw, I installed with
rpm -i opera*
rpm -i abiword*

I see your point, but if it doesn't perform as expected is it still what you want?
(p-s-s-s-t Mozilla 1.X)
TonyB
08-14-2002, 06:25 PM
you should be able to set opera's fonts your self. File>Prefenences>Document
This worked for me.

Hope this helps