Sorry, Scribus 1.0, build 14 July 2003, just built on Gentoo this morning. Qt 3.1.2.
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 07:29, Craig Bradney wrote: > Hi there, > > First posting to the group, so firstly I have to say what a welcome > surprise it was when I found Scribus. I'm left with Adobe Indesign 2.02 > from a move to Linux. Indesign does the job I want pretty damn well but > as its the last Windows-based package I need, hopefully I can replace it > with Scribus soon if Scribus fits the bill. > > First question for now though, is also about fonts. I have many truetype > fonts that KDE picks up fine but Scribus does not, all are within the > same truetype directory of my Gentoo installation. Some missing ones > have spaces in the file names, some do not. > > Any suggestions? > > thanks > Craig > > > -----Forwarded Message----- > > From: Martin Costabel <costabel at wanadoo.fr> > > To: scribusdocs at atlantictechsolutions.com > > Cc: Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > > Subject: Re: [Scribus] Newbie font-question > > Date: 21 Aug 2003 00:13:38 +0200 > > > > Peter Linnell wrote: > > [] > > > I think Paul has done some testing compiling Scribus with the GPL Qt3 > > > source on OSX, although I do not know the exact results. > > > > There are 2 versions of Qt for MacOSX, both of them free now. The Fink > > package for Scribus uses X11 and works with qt-x11-free-3.1.2. I know > > that people have compiled Scribus with Qt/Mac on OSX, but I don't know > > how this works yet. Of course, if this works correctly, it would be > > great, because running natively on OSX is always preferable to running > > under X11. But I suspect the porting questions, and in particular the > > font handling problems, will be quite different in both cases. > > > > [] > > > OK, now were getting somewhere. > > > > > > /sw/lib/X11/fonts is kind of the way Solaris packages third party and > > > GNU utilities. Is there some automatic mechanism for generating these in > > > OSX X11? How are fonts.dir and fonts.scale generated ? > > > > /sw is Fink's private equivalent of /usr/local or /opt. Here are the > > relevant lines from the install scripts of the applesystemfonts package. > > They show how this can be done: > > > > find /Library/Fonts /Network/Library/Fonts /System/Library/Fonts > > /Users/*/Library/Fonts -name \*.dfont -print | while read file; do > > fondu -force "$file" > > done > > > > Fondu <http://fondu.sourceforge.net/> is a special conversion tool for > > Apple fonts that can create the usual pfb, ttf etc files from Apple font > > files. > > > > %p/bin/ttfmkfontdir -o fonts.dir -m 10 -c > > if test -x /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale; then > > /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale; > > fi > > [] > > if test -x %p/bin/xfontpath; then > > %p/bin/xfontpath --silent install applettf > > fi > > if grep -v -q `%p/bin/xfontpath > > basedir`/applettf/etc/X11/XftConfig; then > > echo dir \"`%p/bin/xfontpath basedir`/applettf\" >> > > /etc/X11/XftConfig > > fi > > > > %p is short for /sw (or another base directory the user might have > > chosen), and the usual xfree86 tools are used. > > > > [] > > >>There are a couple of other Fink packages containing fonts. I haven't > > >>tried them, but I suppose they will be doing the right thing, too, to be > > >>recognized by Scribus. > > > > > > > > > Could you see if this is the case? Any hints you have would be welcome > > > and we can include them in the docs. Or other sources of info on how > > > Apple X11 handles fonts? > > > > I have tried some other packages, msttcorefonts (ms meaning the obvious, > > fonts like Arial, Verdana etc), gimp-freefonts and gimp-sharefonts (some > > shareware fonts), and they seem to be recognized by Scribus without > > further configuration. > > > > -- > > Martin > > > > > > ---- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Scribus mailing list > > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
