[Scribus] Font problems under Mac OSX solved

Craig Bradney cbradney
Sun Dec 14 12:04:21 CET 2003


The recommended minimum is freetype 2.1.3, with a suggestion of 2.1.4 if
possible.

Is there no way to upgrade the X11's freetype?

Craig



On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 02:24, Martin Costabel wrote:
> There are now Fink packages for scribus, versions 1.0.1-22 and 1.1.3-13, 
> which should work correctly under Mac OSX 10.3.
> 
> The font problems were due to the version of freetype2 that was used 
> before:
> 
> It seems that scribus does not work correctly (Type 1 fonts not loaded 
> correctly) with freetype-2.1.0 which is the version that comes with 
> xfree86-4.3.0 and also with Apple's X11 on OSX 10.3. It works, however, 
> with freetype-2.1.3 as installed from Fink.
> 
> This is somewhat annoying, because Fink was just about to phase out its 
> freetype2 packages in order to rely solely on the freetype2 that comes 
> with X11. Is there a way to make scribus work with freetype-2.1.0?




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