[scribus] Font substitution

[Jo Evans]

1. If I uncheck Vijaya Bold in the Preferences/Fonts table then I won't be
able to use Arial Bold if I want to.
2. Is there somewhere I can remove the substitution so that Arial Bold is
not associated with Vijaya Bold?
2. It's curious that the original document was created under essentially
the same platform, the only difference being that it would have been on
Windows 7, not 10 which I'm using now.

On 22 February 2017 at 02:25, ZASKE Martin <zm at revue-gugu.org> wrote:

> There was some blurb in early Scribus versions about how and why Scribus
> is picky about certain fonts. Fine. It came up early, I believe right
> after installation in some readme.first.
>
> But we cannot have font-anarchy: If Scribus has accepted a font
> previously (like DejaVu) and the font is not changed in a fundamental
> way; then Scribus must not unilaterally refuse that font (at least not
> for existing documents) later.
>
> For our minority language, we are very limited as far as choice of fonts
> goes. We spend a lot of time and effort for each new project, figuring
> out the "least-bad" font. So having Scribus refuse that some time later,
> when a lot of time has gone into styles and layout would make me very
> upset. I am already grumpy about DejaVu and luckily do not have a lot of
> documents concerned.
>
> I hereby vote +1 for forward font-stability.
>
> And of course I would love to hear feedback please from the developers
> on what is happening and why. Font anarchy would be a reason to go away
> from Scribus. That would be a sad day. And costly in several ways. But
> our documents must stay available, that is why we went OpenSource in the
> first place (and Linux is often a pain).
>
> fwiw,
>
> Martin
>
>
> On 18.02.2017 21:29, 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.
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