[Scribus] Adding fonts.

[John Culleton]

On Thursday 09 December 2004 00:25, BandiPat wrote:
> John Culleton wrote:
> > I took a bunch of fonts and  dumped them into
> > /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 on my Slackware system.  Then I ran
> > fc-cache . The fonts still don't show up in Scribus. What more do I need
> > to do?
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> John,
> Don't know if this works the same on your Slackware, but did you perhaps
> restart the X server?  Anytime I make changes of this nature, I
> ctrl-alt-F1, login as root, init 3 and lastly init 5.  That should
> reload the X server and all fonts, if there are no problems.

Earlier I rebooted, which of course restarts the X server. 

Today I just changed the ownership of /usr/share/fonts to my user id, ran 
fc-cache again as a user, not as root, rebooted and still the same result. 

As part of the reboot process fc-cache is run yet again.

The fonts in question have two origins, Knoppix 3.6 and the latest TeX-Live 
distribution. I put them in /usr/share/cache because I didn't want to muck up
the X11 font libraries. 

The theory behind the fc-cache process is that all X11 apps can share the same 
fonts. On my system there are four sources listed in 
the  /etc/fonts/fonts.conf directory:


  <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
  <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir>
  <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir>
  <dir>~/.fonts</dir>

I chose /usr/share/fonts as the least destructive location. 

Have you added fonts successfully? If so, where did you put them? And what did 
you do next?

Thanks for any help.


-- 
John Culleton