On Thursday 09 December 2004 12:06, John Culleton wrote: > On Thursday 09 December 2004 00:25, BandiPat wrote: > > John Culleton wrote: > > > I took a bunch of fonts and dumped them into > > > /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1 on my Slackware system. Then I ran > > > fc-cache . The fonts still don't show up in Scribus. What more do I > > > need to do? > > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >- > > > > John, > > Don't know if this works the same on your Slackware, but did you perhaps > > restart the X server? Anytime I make changes of this nature, I > > ctrl-alt-F1, login as root, init 3 and lastly init 5. That should > > reload the X server and all fonts, if there are no problems. > > Earlier I rebooted, which of course restarts the X server. > > Today I just changed the ownership of /usr/share/fonts to my user id, ran > fc-cache again as a user, not as root, rebooted and still the same result. > > As part of the reboot process fc-cache is run yet again. > > The fonts in question have two origins, Knoppix 3.6 and the latest TeX-Live > distribution. I put them in /usr/share/cache because I didn't want to muck > up the X11 font libraries. > > The theory behind the fc-cache process is that all X11 apps can share the > same fonts. On my system there are four sources listed in > the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf directory: > > > <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> > <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir> > <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir> > <dir>~/.fonts</dir> > > I chose /usr/share/fonts as the least destructive location. > > Have you added fonts successfully? If so, where did you put them? And what > did you do next?
Scribus <=1.2.x does not support fontconfig. Font discovery is done through X alone, however Scribus supports adding fonts from anywhere in the filesystem. Start Scribus, Settings, Fonts, Additional Font Paths and add the directory in. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20041209/68a377a0/attachment.pgp
