[Scribus] Adding fonts.

[Craig Bradney]

On Thursday 09 December 2004 12:06, John Culleton wrote:
> 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?


Scribus <=1.2.x does not support fontconfig. Font discovery is done through X 
alone, however Scribus supports adding fonts from anywhere in the filesystem. 
Start Scribus, Settings, Fonts, Additional Font Paths and add the directory 
in.

Craig
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