[scribus] Fonts problem after move from windows to linux

JLuc jluc at no-log.org
Sun Dec 4 20:00:58 UTC 2011


Le 04/12/2011 20:50, JLuc a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> i worked on a scribus document with arial font on windows 7
> and was about to continue the work on linux (ubuntu oneiric).
>
> When opening it, scribus said it had to replace non existing font with other,
> and proposed to do so with bitstream charter (for regular, italic, bold and bold italic)
> or to choose other replacement fonts.
> I noticed the arial font were there up in the list,
> (and they were prefixed with a "S" in a shiny green square,
> showing that Scribus *knew* what it should have done right !!!!!)
> so i asked to replace arial regular with arial regular,
> arial italic with arial itlalic etc.
>
> The document could open then, but all arial fonts were bitstream !
> The whole document uses styles, and all styles were set to bitstream.
>
> I tried again with or without checking "make change permanent", same happens.
> I tried with other files of same project, same happens.
>
> So, how could i do work with linux on these files ?

Hmm there is no Arial font on ubuntu !

So i installed arial, and now everything was fine.

It would have been more friendly if scribus would not have shown me
the missing fonts in the replacement list :-)

JLuc




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