[Scribus] sundry minor points

[Peter Linnell]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 19:59, bart at solozone.com wrote:
> In scribus 1.1.4cvs build December 1, 2003 C-*-T
> with QT 3.2.1 SuSE 9.0 &  KDE 3.1.4
> First:
> doing "nothing"  (except clicking somewhere?) I get
> 
> bart at linux:~/fonts> scribus
> *** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice
> *** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice

Do you have anything like svg or vector artwork in your scrapbook which
might have been created in earlier versions? If so, save the scrapbook
and start with a fresh one. This is a harmless warning from files
created in the early 1.1.0 cvs versions, which was fixed by Franz. 
> 
> Second:
> There is something the matter with the kerning
> on the display font, I mean the menu font for the
> recent files to be called up
> thus in "bartfont.sla" the "l" character is
> smashed close to the "a" character almost merging
> them. You do have to look but it is there. Is this
> your kerning? qt? or kde?
> N. B I just noticed in kde menus the "i" is too far to the right.
> This all may be their problem. I will try other
> display fonts.
> 
That is certainly a KDE/Qt issue.
> Third:
> there is display problem. In bartfont.sla where I
> have 36 point examples of 10 of my  Bitstream fonts,
> if I pull the scroll bar at the right, one line that
> then emerges has its TOP CHOPPED OFF. As soon as one
> clicks the thing resolves. But if you go back to the
> top, the same thing happens. I use a 1024  X 768 top.
> 
?? The only thing there is to see that you have the latest libart.


> Fourth:
> FYI my Caslon font that exported OK was a post script
> and i try to use only post script fonts. How by the
> way does scribus handle *.afm fonts? I put afm pfm and
> pfb fonts indiscriminately in the same font folder.
> Correct? No? Bitstream vera is ttf and does not so well
> export. The default font setting is elusive.
> 

Scribus uses freetype2 to extract font info.
 
Unlike Adobe Type Manager, which often separates the bits, Xfree keeps
them in the same folder.

My default font has been Adobe Utopia from X11R6 This is a good
versatile Type 1 font or MS Trebuchet from the web fonts collection. 
Never a problem with export or printing to a fussy RIP. 

More recently since Franz added Open Type font support (which is superb
btw), I have been using Adobe Caslon Pro (Open Type).

> Fifth:
> 
> The default tool is "move" when one opens the file and
> this always results in a point error in position 
> simply because one clicks! others, i am sure, will be
> more careful.

You can change this a bit by experimenting with the mouse grab selection
preference in the Preference panel. The mouse speed settings in Kcontrol
(if you use KDE) can also come into play.  
> 
> Scribus looks absolutely gorgeous!

Wait until you see the new screen shot gallery with KDE 3.2 :)

I loaded the first KDE 3.2 beta and it's fabulous. It is much faster
than 3.1. The kwin window manager has had lots of improvements to
eliminate rubber banding, flicker etc. Dragging windows around is much
smoother without ghosting. For a point release it has a lot of polish
and good fit and everything integrates together nicely. 

Peter