At Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:48:06 +0100, Paul wrote: > > > BTW: There is a bug report from September 23rd asking for > > packaging of the the new 1.1.0 version. So the ?unstable? > > version might change some time soon, and maybe it will even > > proceed into ?testing?. > > I found it most gauling that at the Expo we had a lot of Debian > users insisting that 1.0.1 was the latest version despite the > software saying otherwise.
galling? > I have contacting the Debian chap over the problem and offered > to help him out as well, yet I've not heard back from him. > > I've nothing against Debian, it's a fine distro with a lot of > respect due. I just find it annoying when one of the developers > of a piece of software is basically ignored on email when > trying to help. Maybe you can help with my Debian font problem? Debian has a font management (defoma, x-ttcidfont-conf) system which apparently relies on symlinked fonts to do its trick. Scribus doesn't, it seems, recognize these symlinked fonts. A line in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 points to a directory which contains the symlinked fonts: FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" The virtual font directory is under /var/lib/defoma/, while the fonts themselves are in /usr/[...]/font-package-name. $ file /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/Vera.ttf /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/Vera.ttf: symbolic link to `/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf' This simplifies things a bit because to access the TrueType fonts all you need is that single line in XF86Config-4. This "system" appears to work for all X-based apps except Scribus.
