[Scribus] Some font questions

[PLinnell]

On Monday 06 June 2005 22:35, Maciej Hanski wrote:
Following up myself:

> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:22:49 +0200
>
> PLinnell <mrdocs at scribus.info> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > These notes are part of an addtion I am making to the 1.2.2 docs.
> >
<snip>
> >
> > It is a mixed bag with  "cyrrilized" fonts based on the URW++
> > originals.
> >
> > There have been many different releases merged into the gs-fonts
> > collection and I also understand the motivation of distros for
> > using them. Good freely available Cyrillic fonts are not wide
> > spread. Bugs in Fontforge have caused issues with some of the
> > releases, which required re-issuing the fonts a few times.
> >

You can look at bugs.ghostscript.com for specific issues too.

> > I know for example, one of the URW++ fonts shipped with Suse 9.x
> > gets dropped on loading in 1.3 with the sanity checks being done
> > by Scribus. Yes, this was duly reported to Suse, as well.
> >
> > Scribus by design (to prevent crashes) and by capability (it does
> > things with fonts few free apps can do). Scribus will be by
> > necessity far fussier about fonts than most other apps.
> >
> > I can recommend trying the artifex release of the URW fonts in
> > true type form. Plus there are additional faces which are nicely
> > done like Classico and Coronet.
> >

I meant to add that there are extensive notes on fonts in the docs, 
plus my recommendations here:

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

Links for downloads of good fonts:

http://www.scribus.org.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=viewlink&cid=3



> > Peter
>
> Thank you very much, Peter, that's exactly the answer I've needed
> :)
>
> Maciej
>
>
Peter