[Scribus] Rotis: font-problem

[VANEK Petr]

> I don't really understand how scribus and inkscape are finding their 
> fonts. Both use freetype and fontconfig, but it seems to me 
> they are not 
> using quite the same mechanism. Scribus seems to detect only 
> those fonts 
> that are already known to the running X11 server, i.e. those 
> in the Font 
> Path given by 'xset -q', whereas inkscape manages to look 
> also in some 
> other system directories. But I don't really know what I am talking 
> about here.

yep. scribus search the X11 font paths. You can specify any additional
paths in preferences.
There is one more thing - Scribus use own font names (PS names) for
all combinations of font family - bold/italic/regular...

petr