On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 14:48, Mikko Huhtala wrote: > I installed Scribus 1.1.6 from the fedora.us RPM (the scribus.net RPM > gave the relocation/symbol not found error) and the font-preview RPM > from scribus.net. > > The only Symbol font that appears available for use in Scribus is > OpenSymbol, but the characters are rendered as open rectangles on the > screen and not at all in PDF output. This happens with the automated > font preview plugin, too. OpenOffice behaves equally badly with > OpenSymbol on Fedora Core 1.
Standard Symbols L Regular works fine here on Gentoo > Cutting and pasting e.g. Greek characters from the GNOME Unicode > Character Map to Scribus does not work at all, but does work with Gimp > 2.0, Abiword and other GTK 2 programs Use the Insert special. Gnome Character Map will display glyphs that do not exist in the fonts, having substituted them from Nimbus or another font. > The freetype library version is 2.1.4 and XFree86 version 4.3.0 (stock > Fedora packages). > > Has anyone got Symbol fonts to work in Scribus on Fedora? This is a > show-stopping problem for me and my colleagues, since we frequently > need Greek symbols for scientific presentations. Just use a different Symbol font, or try using Insert Special. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040509/d83c282e/attachment.pgp
