[scribus] Linotype fonts

[John Culleton]

On Wednesday 01 December 2010 19:12:19 Edi Goetschel wrote:
> It's a little bit confusing... In the Wiki Linoty is recommended as
> goog place for fonts (http://http://www.linotype.com/).
>
> But: Can I use Linotype fonts with Linux?
>
> And if yes: Which type can I install? There are OpenType,
> PostScript and TrueType fonts (for Mac and Windows).
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Edi
>
>
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In my Slackware  Linux system I put all types of fonts in 
/usr/share/fonts. There are separate subfolders as follows: 
100dpi
75dpi
OTF
Speedo
TTF
Type1
cyrillic
encodings
misc
util

/usr/share/fonts is the default place for Scribus to find fonts. 
Scribus finds the Type1, TTF and OTF flavors.

Linotype is a font vendor of many decades experience. All their 
products are reliable. But you can also cadge some fonts from the 
GhostScript package and the TeX package. This means some rooting 
around using command line strings. For example you can do something 
like 
find / -name '*ttf'
and
find / -name '*TTF'
to get the locations of all the Truetype fonts on your system. You can 
then link them into the /usr/share/fonts/TTF directory thus:
ln (location)/fontname.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF

You can also instruct Scribus to look in additional directories. See 
the Manual for details.
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