hi john, > I have copied some of the pertinent TeX, Ghostscript etc. fonts over > to /usr/share/fonts/(etc) > This makes them available to Scribus as well as xetex. no idea how slackware works, but in most distributions you should not touch at what is in /usr/share. add your fonts to /usr/local/share/fonts or to ~./fonts instead ciao a.l.e