[Scribus] why texts are all squares?

[peter linnell]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:46, Ping Yeh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I downloaded and compiled Scribus 1.1.1 on my Linux box.
> I was following the tutorial
>         http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/docs/page1.html
> to learn Scribus.  But somehow I could not enter any text,
> the textbox is always blank no matter what I type (I tried
> to change colors).  Every character from "Get Text" is
> displayed as a hollow square.  I'm sure this must be a
> trivial problem somewhere in the configuration, but I have
> struggled for one day with no results.  Any help on getting
> me started with using Scribus would be appreciated, thanks!
> 
> 					Regards,
> 					Ping
> 
> p.s. The "documentation" link http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/documentation/
>      doesn't work now.
Will fix that - thanks.
> 
> My system:
> 
> Red Hat 7 based Linux box with some minor patches
> QT: x11-free-3.2.1  (tarball make)
> Ghostscript: ghostscript-6.51-20   (rpm)
Gs 6.53 is the recommended minimum and 7.05 or 7.07 is even better.
> Type1 fonts: urw-fonts-1.0.7pre22  (tarball make)
> Truetype fonts: ttfonts-1.0-4  (rpm)
> lcms: 1.11  (tarball make)
> freetype: 2.1.1-3  (rpm)

The minimum is 2.1.3 and 2.1.4 recommended.
> libart_lgpl: 2.3.16  (tarball make)

I would also recommend install the MS web fonts they work very well with
Scribus.

Hope that helps,
Peter