[scribus] Is Scribus of No Practical Use to Engineers, Scientists and Mathematicians?

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On Sunday 23 August 2009 17:39:01 Thomas Zastrow wrote:
> Professor Rodney Coates schrieb:
> > The Symbol font will not display; Zapf Dingbats will not display;
> > Render Frame will not work (). Latex/Tex is not working/available ....
>
> Dear Professor Coates,
>
> after the long discussion, let me come back to your original problem :-)
>
> I tried it out and I have absolute no problem with the "Symbol" font in
> Scribus. See the screenshot:
> http://www.thomas-zastrow.de/temp/scribusSymbol.png
>
> Tomorrow in the university, I will try it on Mac, but I think, this is
> not a Scribus problem.
>
> Best,
>
> Tom
>

I can confirm with Scribus 1.3.5.1 that  Apple Symbol and Zapf Dingbat work 
fine on OSX 10.5.8 here. 

I even created a small OpenOffice doc and used these two fonts and then 
imported the doc into Scribus.. Worked perfectly as expected.

Peter



Peter