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5 December 2005

AbiWord CVS Head for 770

Just built AbiWord package of today’s CVS head for the 770 to see how the Pango backend performs. Opening the AbiWord World.abw document, the results are fairly impressive, certainly better than I expected. The device does not have the necessary fonts for number of the languages in that document, but Russian, Czech and Greek (even classical Greek) seem to work. So now I have to find out how to get fonts on the device.

For the brave the (unstable) package is here.

UPDATE: TTF and Type1 fonts can be installed on the 770 by simply placing them into /home/user/.fonts/. With suitable Unicode fonts I am getting pretty decent results, except Hebrew (and a few other languages) are not showing at all (I can move through the text, it just is not on screen); curious, because it works on the desktop, perhaps the version of Pango on the 770 needs to be updated.

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4 Responses to “AbiWord CVS Head for 770”

  1. Internet Tablet Users Blog » Blog Archive » Adding fonts to the Nokia 770 said:
    December 6th, 2005 at 4:23 am

    […] ploring internationalization in Abiword on the Nokia 770 and writing about it on his blog, The Whole is Less than the Sum of the Parts, reports “TTF and Type1 fonts can be installed on th […]

  2. Gene Mosher said:
    December 6th, 2005 at 18:33 pm

    We use the Hitachi VisionPlate as a wireless remote X terminal in a point of sale context and we use custom fonts that we download from a font server. A boot script contains the xset command and path to the fonts on a the remote font server. Any fonts available over the network can be used on any X terminal, like the 770, without having to actually ever install them on the terminal’s firmware. Fonts to be used most often, of course, should reside in the terminal.

  3. The Whole is Less than the Sum of the Parts » Nokia the Zookeeper? said:
    December 7th, 2005 at 9:06 am

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  4. Internet Tablet Users Blog » Blog Archive » Souping up my Nokia 770, part 1 said:
    February 6th, 2006 at 22:15 pm

    […] ule for flash cards. The GPE-PIM trio. Happiest day? When Tomas Frydrych casually let slip how to install fonts. I put in a doze […]

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