[Scribus] Live-CD: TeX fonts
Craig Ringer
craig
Mon Jul 4 05:41:22 CEST 2005
Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
>> At first glance, I would be *very* skeptical of including any kind of
>> converted fonts without some serious QA on the fonts after conversion.
>>
>> By serious, I mean testing several different with commercial RIPS
>> with many different documents, as well as having someone with
>> detailed knowledge of fonts looking over each font carefully in
>> fontforge.
>
>
> That is exactly the reason why I asked for real life experience. As
> you wrote, scribus will winnow out crummy fonts.
Scribus can drop fonts that are badly broken. Sometimes. It's largely
reliant on FreeType's sanity checks etc, and they're hardly perfect. *do
not* rely on Scribus to skip dodgy fonts - try to just use decent ones
instead.
--
Craig Ringer
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