Problems with Answerbook and 2.3
-> In article <2hjbe4$5rq@bart.meiko.com>,addy@meiko.co.uk (David Addison) writes:
-> |> Original Post:
-> |> >I am having problems trying to get the 2.3 Answerbook to display anything on 2.3.
-> |> >
-> |> >When I run it up, I get the Navigator which lets me step though the End User AB.
-> |> >But when I then try to display something; it fires off 1 docviewer process,
-> |> >hangs around a while, displays 'Library: /home/kursa/addy/.ab_library' at the
-> |> >bottom of the Navigator window and then gives pop-up window saying:
-> |> >
-> |> > Can't start new viewer
-> |> > Could not launch new Viewer.
-> |> >
-> |> >All I can do is hit continue on this window.
-> |> >It does nothing else and leaves the docviewer process hanging around.
-> |>
-> [ deleted ... ]
-> |> I have made the following discoveries (with help from the net):
-> |>
-> |> a) In my case, the problem seems to be provoked by Lucid Emacs (19.6 & 19.9)
-> |> - Larry Virdenlwv26@cas.org also reported similar problems with Mosiac, FrameMaker, Caseware etc.
-> |>
->
-> Not necessarily true. I have also experienced the same problem complicated
-> by Mosaic (it may well be that xv invoked by mosaic was causing the problem ...).
-> Hence, the problem could lie in Motif/OW libs or in the server or combinations
-> thereof ...
I believe I've narrowed this problem down to loading
particular fonts. I haven't built a list of problem fonts yet, but
they all appear to be adobe fonts.
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Jason C. Austin
j.c.austin@larc.nasa.gov
