[Scribus] Font Help Please

[John R. Culleton]

On Thursday 12 July 2007 12:35, HARENDAL .h wrote:
> >From: John Jason Jordan
> >
> >They also do not appear in any other application, so evidently
> >something more basic is wrong. What is the secret to getting fonts
> > to work?
>
Using my new Scribus 133x svn version I have come upon another set of 
peculiaritiy.

Situation one: I add text via the story editor. All my usual fonts are 
available. 

Situation two: I insert text from an odt file. Some fonts are not 
available so Scribus asks me on each one what I should substitute. 
The good news---it gives me a complete selection of fonts. The bad 
news, if I select anything other than from a small subset it just 
goes through the motions but ignores what I picked. 

Situation three: I am creating a style. It doesn't even pretend to 
give me a full selection to choose from. I only get the subset. 

Now what is the small subset? Basically it is the fonts in 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
These are mostly Truetype. And none of them are italic. 

Now on Linux there is a thingie called fc-cache that is supposed to be 
the index of all fonts used by applications. Take Bitstream Charter 
Italic for example: I can reach it through the Scribus storybook. I 
can reach it with Inkscape. I can reach it with Gimp. I can reach it 
with Krita.  Why not with a Scribus style? And what is with the odt 
import shenanigans?

-- 
John Culleton