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

[Craig Bradney]

Sorry, Scribus 1.0, build 14 July 2003, just built on Gentoo this
morning. Qt 3.1.2.

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 07:29, Craig Bradney wrote:
> 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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