On Thursday 09 December 2004 14:04, John Culleton wrote: > On Thursday 09 December 2004 07:24, Craig Bradney wrote: > > 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 > > Did that and Scribus crashed with a X11 signal. So I restarted Scribus. Now > the tab for Additional Font Paths is grayed out.
If Scribus then crashes, you more than likely have a bad font in that directory. Freetype doesnt pass all errors through that hurt Scribus. > To recap, thus far I have added the /usr/share/fonts/ directory > to /etc/fonts/font.conf and run fc-cache. Rebooted but no effect. > > Following another suggestion I added /usr/share/fonts/ to the list of font > locations in the xorg.conf file in /etc/X11. Rebooted but no effect. Theres no need to reboot, certainly not for Scribus sake. > Following your suggestion I tried a dynamic add via settings->fonts-> > Additional font paths. I didn't get the fonts but I did lose that tab. You dont lose the tab unless you have a document open, even then its greyed out. Scribus preferences as opposed to document preferences are not available in 1.2.x when a document is open. > Friends and neighbors, this isn't, or shouldn't be rocket science. Let me > ask: how do I successfully add type 1 fonts to Scribus, given a Slackware > system and Scribus 1.2 build date 28 Aug 2004? > > And BTW how and where do I fix the problem with the grayed out tab? > Should I delete the .scribus directory in my home directory and allow > Scribus to reconfigure itself? Do a full Scribus recompile and reinstall? > Commit hari kari? As above. Recompiling wont help a thing, except if you upgrade to CVS which would be of benefit given the number of advances. Thats up to you, 1.2.1 is not that far away. 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/d51e5e4c/attachment.pgp
