[scribus] Marathi fonts in Scribus

a.l.e ale.comp_06 at xox.ch
Tue Aug 24 13:33:27 CEST 2010


  hi moz,
> I was trying to format a booklet (about 16 pages, quarter of A4 page
> size), in an Indian Devnagari font (Marathi to be specific) and found
> that the combination letters do not display correctly in layout mode,
> but they do display correctly in Story Editor mode. I tried creating a
> PDF and found that that too did not display the fonts correctly.
>
> I have version 1.3.5svn Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 64bit.

scribus does not support yet indic scripts. (what you see in the story 
editor is an approximation done through qt which does not ensure a 
quality which qualifies for printing).

afaict, if everything works well, you can expect support for hindy 
before the end of next year...


ciao
a.l.e



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