[scribus] Font substitution

[Jo Evans]

Is it possible to remove a font (eg Vijaya Bold) from the
Scribus/Preferences/Fonts/ listing. The table does not appear to be
editable.

On 19 February 2017 at 20:33, Jo Evans <jo.hose.evans at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't think this last posting is any use to me because I am running
> Windows 10 not Linux.
>
> On 19 February 2017 at 16:14, William Bader <williambader at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> From: Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
>>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 8:07 PM
>> To: Scribus User Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [scribus] Font substitution
>>
>> On 02/18/2017 07:45 PM, William Bader wrote:
>> > From: Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
>> > Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 4:54 PM
>> > To: Scribus User Mailing List
>> > Subject: Re: [scribus] Font substitution
>> >
>> > On 02/18/2017 03:29 PM, Jo Evans wrote:
>> >> Scribus 1.4.6 on Windows 10
>> >>
>> >> I have some documents made previously using Vijaya font (a free TTF)
>> both
>> >> regular and bold. But now when I open the documents, although the
>> regular
>> >> text is correctly displayed, it substitutes Arial for the Vijaya bold
>> text.
>> >>
>> >> When I look in Preferences... Fonts the table entry for Vijaya Bold
>> shows
>> >> the substitution but ther seems no way of editing the table to remove
>> the
>> >> substitution.
>> >>
>> >> I have tried reinstalling Vijaya into Windows but this has had no
>> effect.
>> >
>> > I'm having the same problem with DejaVu fonts -- Scribus won't recognize
>> > them, and substitutes in old files.
>> >
>> > Greg
>> >
>> > ---
>> >
>> > I think that Scribus uses fontconfig https://www.freedesktop.org/wi
>> ki/Software/fontconfig/ to locate the installed fonts. The fonts might
>> have to be installed with a method that fontconfig supports.
>>
>>
>> This doesn't make any sense to me. DejaVu fonts have always worked fine.
>> I can't find anything in the link to connect fontconfig to some
>> operation to check or evaluate fonts.
>>
>> LibreOffice has no problem with DejaVu.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> ---
>>
>> LibreOffice might use another method of getting fonts. In any case, you
>> can check the fonts available to fontconfig with the fc-list command
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/font_configuration and you can ask
>> fontconfig what provides or substitutes for a given font with the fc-match
>> command. https://linux.die.net/man/1/fc-match
>>
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