there are lots of cool free fonts that work with scribus on larabiefonts.com they are also packaged in debian.
On Sunday 11 May 2003 18:14, Peter Linnell wrote: > On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 11:34, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > On 10 May 2003, Peter Linnell wrote: > > > Need more info. Which version of Scribus? Which distro?, version of > > > Xfree86? Where did the TTF's come from? Approx how many ? > > > > Scribus 0.9.9, Red Hat 8.0, XFree86 4.2.0, gimmefonts.com, about 20. :) > > <snip> from the new Redhat 8.0 page in the docs: > http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/redhat80.html > > <snip> > > True Type and Type 1 Font Installation Tips: > 1. Get the web fonts from http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ BUT put > the fonts in /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF. I like to keep my > fonts paths as simple as possible. > 2. Follow the advice from http://www.graemepyle.com/linuxfonts.html > 3. Important make sure the font names are in lower case. > 4. After the fonts are installed, make sure you have the > Xfree86-utils package. This contains ttmkfondir, Then as root, > create a fonts.scale file, cd into the directory by the command: > ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale > for a directory of True Type fonts or for Type 1 fonts create > the fonts.scale file using: > mkfontscale > 5. Then: as root: > fc-cache --force --verbose > This will create new a fonts.dir and update the font cache. This > replaces the mkfontdir command in Xfree 4.2 > > > Then > from:http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/optimizelinuxdtp1.htm >l <snip> > > "Do not be surprised when shareware or clone True Type fonts from the > Internet disappoint when printed. Sometimes shareware True Type fonts do > not follow proper the proper encoding specs, so they are unreliable in a > Postscript environment. Making good dependable fonts is not easy and > requires a lot of QA testing." > > My guess one or more of the twenty fonts you downloaded are a. > improperly installed and/or b. broken internally somehow. They might > work with a web browser, but won't with a DTP be it Scribus, Pagemaker > or QXP. > > Hope that helps, > Peter
