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>I have recently upgraded to Mandrake 8.0. When I use Abiword the font
>rendering is terrible (especially Times New Roman).

http://users.evitech.fi/~arndb/cooker-type1-fonts/readme.txt

Type1 rendering is broken in Mandrake 8.0. Replace the files /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.so.1.3

with the versions from XFree86-server-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm and XFree86-libs-4.0.3-1.1mdk.i586.rpm respectively.

Achim