[Scribus] Seggfault with TrueType fonts?

[Johannes Wilm]

there are lots of cool free fonts that work with scribus on larabiefonts.com 
they are also packaged in debian.


On Sunday 11 May 2003 18:14, Peter Linnell wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 11:34, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> > On 10 May 2003, Peter Linnell wrote:
> > > Need more info. Which version of Scribus?  Which distro?, version of
> > > Xfree86? Where did the TTF's come from? Approx how many ?
> >
> > Scribus 0.9.9, Red Hat 8.0, XFree86 4.2.0, gimmefonts.com, about 20. :)
>
> <snip> from the new Redhat 8.0 page in the docs:
> http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/redhat80.html
>
> <snip>
>
> True Type and Type 1 Font Installation Tips:
>      1. Get the web fonts from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ BUT put
>         the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF. I like to keep my
>         fonts paths as simple as possible.
>      2. Follow the advice from http://www.graemepyle.com/linuxfonts.html
>      3. Important make sure the font names are in lower case.
>      4. After the fonts are installed, make sure you have the
>         Xfree86-utils package. This contains ttmkfondir, Then as root,
>         create a fonts.scale file, cd into the directory by the command:
>         ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale
>         for a directory of True Type fonts or for Type 1 fonts create
>         the fonts.scale file using:
>          mkfontscale
>      5. Then: as root:
>         fc-cache --force --verbose
>         This will create new a fonts.dir and update the font cache. This
>         replaces the mkfontdir command in Xfree 4.2
>
>
> Then
> from:http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/optimizelinuxdtp1.htm
>l <snip>
>
> "Do not be surprised when shareware or clone True Type fonts from the
> Internet disappoint when printed. Sometimes shareware True Type fonts do
> not follow proper the proper encoding specs, so they are unreliable in a
> Postscript environment. Making good dependable fonts is not easy and
> requires a lot of QA testing."
>
> My guess one or more of the twenty fonts you downloaded are a.
> improperly installed and/or b. broken internally somehow.  They might
> work with a web browser, but won't with a DTP be it Scribus, Pagemaker
> or QXP.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Peter