> Abiword won't print properly.
> When I come to print a document from abiword I get a terrible
> result of some strange looking font and the letters frequently
> on top of one onother. But not all of them. The print out basically
> is horrible and doesn't work properly.

That's a bug in Abiword I think. It is also unable to handle correctly 
some diacritics, like é or Greek letters.

Try the snapshot version (2.1.8 I think)

Cheers,
Vincent