[Fwd: Re: [Scribus] Newbie font-question]

[Craig Bradney]

Hi there,

First posting to the group, so firstly I have to say what a welcome
surprise it was when I found Scribus. I'm left with Adobe Indesign 2.02
from a move to Linux. Indesign does the job I want pretty damn well but
as its the last Windows-based package I need, hopefully I can replace it
with Scribus soon if Scribus fits the bill.

First question for now though, is also about fonts. I have many truetype
fonts that KDE picks up fine but Scribus does not, all are within the
same truetype directory of my Gentoo installation. Some missing ones
have spaces in the file names, some do not.

Any suggestions?

thanks
Craig


-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Martin Costabel <costabel at wanadoo.fr>
> To: scribusdocs at atlantictechsolutions.com
> Cc: Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
> Subject: Re: [Scribus] Newbie font-question
> Date: 21 Aug 2003 00:13:38 +0200
> 
> Peter Linnell wrote:
> []
> > 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.
> 
> []
> > 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
> []
>      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.
> 
> []
> >>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
> 
> 
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