On 8/2/05, Redefined Horizons <redefined.horizons at gmail.com> wrote: > I'm currently running Debian Sarge and the GNOME 2.0. > > I'm having some trouble adding fonts to Scribus. > > In Scribus' Font Dialog I have added the paths to the folders on my > file system that contain fonts, but no additional fonts become > available. > > What type of fonts does Scribus support? Is there an additional step > or configuration that I am missing?
You have to set up the additional fonts in X, as far as I know. I have successfully added truetype fonts by following the instructions on this page: http://linux.org.mt/article/ttfonts I use Fedora, but I think the instructions work on just about any distro; they refer to generic utilities. If you add a new font directory, and you want X to re-read the font paths from the config file, and you don't want to restart X, run 'xset fp rehash' (I think). When I restarted xfs while X was running, bad things happened, so don't try that. :) If you still can't see the fonts, check that the permissions on the font files are correct (everyone needs at least read permission, I think) - sometimes they get messed up if you extract them from a zip. Cheers -- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! --Registered Linux User #334504--
