[Scribus] bad fonts

[PLinnell]

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 05:18, bart at solozone.com wrote:
> What is the reason some bad fonts show as e.g.
> ZJI___.pfb bad font discarding it
>
> while otheres simply crash on access with signal 11?
>  I had a font demo running in 1.2 with half a dozen Helvetica
> examples and it printed on a bubble jet quite prettily. Now these
> hobbes.nmsu.edu OS/2 fonts crash. Not all do so however. Scribus
> seems to be tougher on bad fonts now.
>
> Bart Alberti
>

Curious, I went and poked a bit through the pile of fonts on hobbes. 
Some are quite good quality ones. Some should have a big DANGER! sign 
attached.

A good bunch are old Type 1 fonts (ca 1991) which often can cause 
issues with newer operating systems and PS printers. These older 
fonts can cause a good number of headaches on newer operating 
systems. Upgrading from Mac OS8.5 > OS 8.6+ triggered issues with 
these fonts, especially with Pagemaker from memory.

IIRC Adobe for a long time had an exchange program for newer versions 
if you had the original disks. In Pit Stop I have a check for the 
dates of Type 1 fonts as a preventive measure when pre-flighting 
PDFs.

Looking at others, they are obvious clones and poorly done at that. 
Many of the fonts have a readme file or other text info inside the 
zip. Worth looking at for hints on what might be a good authentic 
font or a clone.

I could not find the font listed. Could you send it off list to me for 
some investigation?

Peter