[Scribus] Scribus and symlinks (again)

[ephemeron]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:35:07 +0100,
Paul wrote:
> 
> > > I found it most gauling that at the Expo we had a lot of Debian
> > > users insisting that 1.0.1 was the latest version despite the
> > > software saying otherwise.
> > 
> > galling?
> 
> Yep - my spelling was temporarily affected by vodka...
> 
> > > I've nothing against Debian, it's a fine distro with a lot of
> > > respect due. I just find it annoying when one of the developers
> > > of a piece of software is basically ignored on email when
> > > trying to help.
> > 
> > Maybe you can help with my Debian font problem?  Debian has a
> > font management (defoma, x-ttcidfont-conf) system which
> > apparently relies on symlinked fonts to do its trick.  Scribus
> > doesn't, it seems, recognize these symlinked fonts.
> 
> Correct, I'm not sure if it's a Scribus issue or a Qt issue though. I
> can't see anything in Scribus which won't follow a symlink.

I just did a really unscientific test.  I created a symlink to a
valid Scribus doc.  Scribus opened it just fine.  So mmaybe it's
really a problem with the font loading modules?

(Sorry for being persistent with the issue.  It's the only
Scribus "bug" that's affecting me.)