[Scribus] What is an S font?

Craig Bradney cbradney
Wed Dec 26 08:44:26 CET 2007


On Wednesday 26 December 2007 07:23:39 Dean McCorquodale wrote:
> Brian
> Scribus does rely on the fonts being of good quality to start with. You
> may be able to start scribus from cmd line and see if it fails on it's
> font checking?
>
> Dean
>
> On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 16:09 +1030, Brian Astill wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:57:05 am Craig Bradney wrote:
> > > Scribus may be rejecting the fonts due to quality or some other
> > > reason. What fonts exactly are they?
> >
> > As I said earlier:
> > The remaining three - Gargi 1.7, Comix and Fritz
> > To be _completely accurate:
> > comixh.ttf
> > fritzbi.ttf
> > fritzb.ttf
> > fritzi.ttf
> > fritzr.ttf
> > Gargi_1.7.ttf
> >
> > All have permissions -rw-r--r--  root root
> > as do all the fonts in that directory.

As Dean suggests, try starting Scribus from the command line with 
the --font-info (or -fi) switch to get it to tell you about the fonts it 
finds and rejects.

Craig



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