[Scribus] Re: Where are the font files? Hurry, please! (Craig Ringer)

[Robert R. Di Giorgio]

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>   1. Re: Where are the font files?  Hurry, please! (Craig Ringer)
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>Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:59:27 +0800
>From: Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>
>Subject: Re: [Scribus] Where are the font files?  Hurry, please!
>To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
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>On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 12:40 -0700, Robert R. Di Giorgio wrote:
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>>I have just upgraded to 1.3.0, but I liked the fonts in 1.2.2 a lot 
>>better
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>Neither 1.3.x or 1.2.x come with any fonts. The difference is in the way
>they search for fonts on your system. 1.2.x searches your X font path -
>and does things like tries to parse your X font server config file - to
>find fonts. 1.3.x uses the increasingly standard (on Linux) fontconfig
>library to locate them.
>
>If xlsfonts shows your fonts but fc-list does not, then that is most
>likely your problem. You can either add the directories containing the
>fonts to the Scribus font search path in the preferences ("Extra
>fonts"), or you can tell fontconfig where to find them.
>
>Please see http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=fonts1 and
>http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=fonts2  for more
>information.
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>> -- and since I used 1.2.2 for last month's edition of my church 
>>newsletter, I would like to keep the former set of fonts.  I would also 
>>like to standardize Open Office with the same fonts, because I use it to 
>>prepare articles for the newsletter. (This is a 24-page color booklet, 
>>and I'm way behind for this issue!)
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>I think OpenOffice.org should also be able to find the fonts with
>fontconfig if you tell fontconfig where they are.
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>>But I can't find the fonts. Are they hidden somewhere, or disguised with 
>>a non-obvious directory name?
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>You might be able to find them by examining the output of `xset q' (look
>for the section entitled "Font Path"). If you see a list of paths there,
>look in those. If you see "unix/:7100" then you're using the X font
>server, and need to look at /etc/X11/fs/config to see where the fonts
>are.
>
>When you locate the fonts, add entries for them to ~/.fonts.conf , eg:
>
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
><fontconfig>
> <dir>/home/craig/.cidfonts</dir>
> <dir>/home/craig/.kdetest/share/fonts</dir>
> <dir>/home/craig/.gsfonts</dir>
> <dir>/home/craig/.fonts-arabic</dir>
></fontconfig>
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>and run fc-cache .
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>>StarOffice 7 also has the fonts I want, but I can't find those, either.
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>spadmin might help you locate those. It should be in the same place as
>the StarOffice 7 binaries.
>
>--
>Craig Ringer
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All the above was very helpful. I learned how to locate font files, and 
install them in fontconfig and Scribus. I copied the files over from my 
other computer (which has Xandros 3 and Scribus 1.2.?, but no matter 
what I did, Scribus 1.3 didn't show the new fonts I wanted. It turned 
out that they were mostly TTF fonts, which apparently Scribus 1.2 
accepted but 1.3 doesn't. I weeded out the fonts I really didn't like 
(mostly the Asian fonts), and am trying to locate Type 1 fonts that are 
free and I like. :-\ Not much luck so far, but I'm still looking. At 
least I understand the problem. Now if I can understand some answers 
.... Thanks for your help.
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