[Scribus] Rotis: font-problem

[Craig Bradney]

On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 11:52, Ralf H?ling wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Am 20.03.2004 um 18:20 schrieb Ralf H?ling:
> >>
> >> Scribus does a very good job of supporting OTF (thanks Franz!)  
> >> Scribus can
> >> access all the glyphs in an Open Type Font, as well as embed them 
> >> properly in
> >> EPS, PS and PDF (a tough issue to solve btw).
> >
> > But Scribus is the only application I use, that doesn't want to 
> > recognize AgfaRotis and I want this font.
> > Even Inkscape and Sodipodi work well with this font, only Scribus 
> > doesn't. In Mac-Applications I never recognized a problem either.
> 
> I've looked around a little and found that there are many fonts of 
> different kind that aren't recognised by scribus but work fine in 
> Inkscape, for example: Chicago (Apple Trutype), Univers (Adope PS 
> Type1), Frutiger (PS Type1).
> >>
> >> 1. Cross-font.  Which is a shareware application which runs on 
> >> Windows. This
> >> handles Mac PS > TTF pretty well.
> >
> > I will try.
> I tried with all tricks (compressing with stuffit, installing stuffit 
> for windows, etc.) but it doesn't work :-(
> So I can't imagine that any dtp-professional would throw all his 
> expensive fonts away and buy new ones, even if they were available just 
> to work with Scribus. And what I can't understand is that theese fonts 
> work without any problem on the same machine also under X11 with 
> Inkscape.
> Don't get me wrong, I like Scribus very much and there are great 
> improvements, but as long as most of my fonts don't work in Scribus I 
> can't use it. I hope in the future the font-management will be as good 
> as in Inkscape or sodipodi.

Wait until Inkscape 0.38 for a comparison of the font systems. Their
system is getting a rewrite and will be more like the Scribus one. Then
we can compare. These fonts may not work in Inkscape then either.

Craig
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