Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:15:54 -0800 From: "Alec Wolman" <wolman@cs.washington.edu> To: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: "Michael Collette" <metrol@earthlink.net>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AbiWord to ispell to dict prob Message-ID: <200101150815.AAA53419@miles.cs.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> of "Sun, 14 Jan 2001 00:03:40 EST." <008d01c07de7$5cabbc50$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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> Perhaps the maintainer can confirm the requirement of the 'type1' module, > and if it is required, the appropriate hints should be in pkg-message. I'd > draft up appropriate changes to pkg-message, but I don't have X installed so > I can't play around with things. > > > After all that, I finally got AbiWord to run. Might have marked this > down > > as a success, only to find that Abi has horrid font rendering. Not > meaning > > to turn this into a review of the software, but ACK! Had a "make > deinstall" > > kick in after about an hour of trying to get something readable on the > > screen. > > This sounds strange. Perhaps something with fonts is messed up on your > system, and that's why you required the type1 module, and perhaps it caused > the horrible rendering. Although you've already deinstalled it, you may > wish to enlist some help from the maintainer or the kind folks on IRC to fix > this up. (Keep in mind that I'm just speculating.) The abiword font renderer does not do anti-aliasing, so the fonts are definitely not beautiful. On the other hand, I wouldn't call it terrible either. It is true that AbiWord requires type1 fonts. For Xfree86 v3.3.6, I'm fairly sure that type1 fonts are always enabled (there is no module system). For Xfree86 v4, you must have "Load type1" in your config file, but again, I think that the default configuration file that is created by xf86cfg will already include this so users shouldn't have to take special action. Alec To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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