[Scribus] Nimbus Italic fonts

[PLinnell]

On Wednesday 20 July 2005 18:00, Paul wrote:
> Thanks for a great piece of software. This is my first foray into
> doing layouts and also my first post to this list.  As you'd
> expect, I'm starting with a question :)
>
> How is it, that I cannot select Nimbus Regular Italic and Nimbus
> Bold Italic? (n019023.pfb and n019024.pfb)
>
> When I launch Scribus and use Settings>Fonts all other Nimbus
> flavours are checked for use.  If I check the two missing ones,
> restart Scribus and try again, they disappear as soon as I try to
> use them.
>
> If I look in the source directory (usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/)
> they are there and KFontView seems to like 'em...
>
> Now getting a bit mystified and would muchly appreciate any help
> from more seasoned users.
>
> Paul
>
> Using Scribus 1.2.2.1 with KDE 3.3.0 on FC3 in West Sussex, England
> _______________________________________________

Probably this: http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688130

You did not say which distro you use.

Work around? install these:  
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/GhostPCL/urwfonts-1.41.tar.bz2

That said, this section of the docs is quite important, maybe the most 
important for all users to read:

http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=fonts2

Hope that helps,

Peter