[Scribus] Rotis: font-problem

[Ralf Höling]

Hi Martin!
Am 20.03.2004 um 11:32 schrieb Martin Costabel:
>
> What format is this font file?

It's "Mac Postscript" they say. Some of the files end with .fam, .bmap, 
.afm, some don't have any extension.

> If it is something that fondu can understand, you can run fondu on it 
> and put the resulting ttf file into one of the subdirectories of 
> /sw/lib/X11/fonts/. Have a look at the applesystemfonts.info file to 
> see how the applesystemfont package does this. Actually, rebuilding 
> and installing the applesystemfonts package might even capture your 
> new font automatically, depending on its file format.

That was the first thing I tried, but it didn't work. And there is no 
rotis in /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf.
>
> 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.

O.K. so far, thank you for your help.

Ralf