hi, On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 03:49:24 +0000 Steve Herrick <steveh at greens.org> wrote:
> I also am not using Scribus professionally (I'm curious if anyone is), > but I would like to in the near future. I'm still struggling with > fonts displaying correctly (versions 0.9.5 - 0.9.8 beta). i would also like to in the future. but what exactly is the problem regarding fonts? i've scribus 0.9.7 compiled under mandrake 9 (scribus wouldn't compile with the default liblcms and liblcms-devel that ships with mandrake 9; i had to compile lcms from the source) and i have over 100 fonts available for scribus. ttf and postscript fonts that i installed using ttmkfdir, mkfontdir and chkfontpath --add. another thing is that when scribus is run for the first time (or subsequently with the .scribus dir deleted/renamed) all the menus appear nicely anti-aliased. from the second run onwards, the anti-aliased menus disappear. not that i mind that very much. but the text in the text boxes still remains anti-aliased. openoffice exhibits the same behaviour under mdk 9. i am sure it varies from distro to distro. regards, subash.
