[Scribus] New fonts as OT or just TTF/Type1?

[Rajeev J Sebastian]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 05:07, Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 23. M?rz 2006 00:31 schrieb avox:
> > Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
> > > ... OTF is the future, but unfortunately it's not the present
> > > for all applications yet. OO.o doesn't support OTF. You can't use
> > > OpenType there.
> >
> > As I gather from http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37073
> > OO.o *does* display OpenType fonts, it just doesn't apply the advanced
> > tables.
> > Note that stacking diacritics, vertical layout, ligatures and all those
> > other OTF
> > features can't even be expressed in TTF and Type1. So I still say, go for
> > OTF and
> > enjoy the advanced features when the apps are ready. I'm pretty sure
> > Scribus,
> > pango-based apps and possibly OO.o will deliver within a year.
>
> OO.o does not display OTF, at least 2.0.1 does not. The fonts are listed in
> the "Fonts" menus, but you can't apply them to any text (you can, ut you
> won't see anything nor will the text be printed).
OOo's CTL depends on OTF. And, it does print ... atleast Opentype with 
TrueType outlines do print. I haven't tested OpenType with CFF outlines 
though.

Regards,
Rajeev J Sebastian