From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 7 14:03:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBAC4106564A for ; Thu, 7 May 2009 14:03:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from traveling08@cox.net) Received: from fed1rmmtai107.cox.net (fed1rmmtai107.cox.net [68.230.241.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7558FC17 for ; Thu, 7 May 2009 14:03:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from traveling08@cox.net) Received: from fed1rmimpo03.cox.net ([70.169.32.75]) by fed1rmmtao107.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20090507135013.XDER18948.fed1rmmtao107.cox.net@fed1rmimpo03.cox.net>; Thu, 7 May 2009 09:50:13 -0400 Received: from vaio ([98.176.32.99]) by fed1rmimpo03.cox.net with bizsmtp id odqC1b00428KUXW04dqCC6; Thu, 07 May 2009 09:50:12 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=mXpdQWDzxRsIklyyVB4A:9 a=_WJEe-JHA-1L3vTpznYA:7 a=YiZ4xfipeIG6o_R32R_eNRtlossA:4 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 06:50:07 -0700 From: Robert To: kenneth hatteland Message-ID: <20090507065007.0a6f0639@vaio> In-Reply-To: <4A0298ED.5010201@kleppnett.no> References: <4A0298ED.5010201@kleppnett.no> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: abiword X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 14:03:42 -0000 On Thu, 07 May 2009 10:16:45 +0200 kenneth hatteland wrote: > I am having serious problems getting my freebsd machines with > abiword installed to open .doc files. Text becomes totally garbled > and unreadable. Have searched the net and the few abiword forums I > can find but nowhere does it say what nob is unturned on my > freebsd installs. winxp and linux machines opens such documents ok. > Anyone using this and know something wise ? > OpenOffice would be an alternative, but I only have 4gb left of /usr > so it won` t build. > > blessed be > Kenneth, norway Hello Kenneth I too had this problem with abiword and FreeBSD. Well, it is still there but I have worked around it. This is part of email I from the abiword list that I started. I found that I could then use the bitstream-vera fonts without any trouble. I then edited the normal.awt file locater at /usr/local/share/abiword-2.6/templates/ from Times New Roman to Bitstream Charter. Now I can create new documents and when I pull in an existing document I can "select all" and change it to Bitstream Charter. It definitely is a bandaid fix. All of the other files in directories at /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/ are gz files. I am not a programmer but I would _guess_ the Xorg upgrade is not opening those gz files for use by abiword. Long story short, I am able to use abiword and can live with this. I know this is not the solution you are looking for but it can help you be productive. I am not sure but I think this started with the recent update of Xorg. Abiword 2.7.0 has been released and when the port is updated I am hoping this problem is solved. I hope this helps Robert