[Scribus] Newbie font-question

[Martin Costabel]

Peter Linnell wrote:
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> I think Paul has done some testing compiling Scribus with the GPL Qt3
> source on OSX, although I do not know the exact results. 

There are 2 versions of Qt for MacOSX, both of them free now. The Fink 
package for Scribus uses X11 and works with qt-x11-free-3.1.2. I know 
that people have compiled Scribus with Qt/Mac on OSX, but I don't know 
how this works yet. Of course, if this works correctly, it would be 
great, because running natively on OSX is always preferable to running 
under X11. But I suspect the porting questions, and in particular the 
font handling problems, will be quite different in both cases.

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> OK, now were getting somewhere. 
> 
> /sw/lib/X11/fonts is kind of the way Solaris packages third party and
> GNU utilities. Is there some automatic mechanism for generating these in
> OSX X11?  How are fonts.dir and fonts.scale generated ?  

/sw is Fink's private equivalent of /usr/local or /opt. Here are the 
relevant lines from the install scripts of the applesystemfonts package. 
They show how this can be done:

     find /Library/Fonts /Network/Library/Fonts /System/Library/Fonts 
/Users/*/Library/Fonts  -name \*.dfont -print | while read file; do
            fondu -force "$file"
      done

Fondu <http://fondu.sourceforge.net/> is a special conversion tool for 
Apple fonts that can create the usual pfb, ttf etc files from Apple font 
files.

     %p/bin/ttfmkfontdir -o fonts.dir -m 10 -c
     if test -x /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale; then 
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale;
     fi
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     if test -x %p/bin/xfontpath; then
         %p/bin/xfontpath --silent install applettf
     fi
     if grep -v -q `%p/bin/xfontpath 
basedir`/applettf/etc/X11/XftConfig; then
         echo dir \"`%p/bin/xfontpath basedir`/applettf\" >> 
/etc/X11/XftConfig
     fi

%p is short for /sw (or another base directory the user might have 
chosen), and the usual xfree86 tools are used.

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>>There are a couple of other Fink packages containing fonts. I haven't 
>>tried them, but I suppose they will be doing the right thing, too, to be 
>>recognized by Scribus.
> 
> 
> Could you see if this is the case?  Any hints you have would be welcome
> and we can include them in the docs. Or other sources of info on how
> Apple X11 handles fonts?

I have tried some other packages, msttcorefonts (ms meaning the obvious, 
fonts like Arial, Verdana etc), gimp-freefonts and gimp-sharefonts (some 
shareware fonts), and they seem to be recognized by Scribus without 
further configuration.

-- 
Martin