ports/134732: editors/abiword shows spacing corruption

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 19 May 2009 21:40:04 -0500, Joseph S. Atkinson <jsa.bsd at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR ports/134732; it has been noted by  
> GNATS.
>
> From: "Joseph S. Atkinson" <jsa.bsd at gmail.com>
> To: Koop Mast <kwm at FreeBSD.org>,
>  FreeBSD Bug Followup <bug-followup at FreeBSD.org>
> Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
> Subject: Re: ports/134732: editors/abiword shows spacing corruption
> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 22:30:59 -0400
>
>  I've solved this... kinda...
> The issue is that the fonts it wants do not exist and... can't be
>  shipped with it either. The default fonts are MS fonts found in
>  x11-fonts/webfonts.
> The solution, seemingly, would thus be to change the default font in
>  abiword to something more F/OSS friendly...
> However, documents written in the MS fonts will still cause this garbage
>    to render out. This should really be falling back to a sane font
>  proper though.
> Currently, the only real fix is to install webfonts.

Nice find. It might be a great idea for you to file a bug  
(request/suggest) in AbiWord bugzilla. But best to search in there first.  
It's odd for any open source to use Microsoft's fonts by default when  
great open source fonts are available.

Cheers,
Mezz


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