The new font picker is blazing fast so I see why they did not keep the preview feature i am bubbling over with my idea that if there were a Tools --> 'Font Preview" feature one could at leisure peruse the fonts while the actual picker would be fast. A compile time option I think would confuse many.
SUSE advertises Scribus 1.0 for their upcoming (October 24!) SuSE 9.0 I have fonts A to Z from Bit stream. very easy. Just get rid of ~/scribus/scribusfonts.rc before compiling the newer version of scribus bart at solozone.com Bart Alberti
