Quoting Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>: > > so how do you tell? what's the best way to know if a font is a viable > > choice (outside of "look") for a publication? > > Jack, > > there are some basic rules: > > - Use of Adope/PS fonts will usually result in better output(print), but > mostly will look ugly on screen. OpenType tries to finally keep the > promises given with TrueType (equally good output on screen and in > print), and OpenType is really better than TrueType. There are lots of > TT fonts with printing issues, but you can find some really good ones as > well. However, scribus will do a font check on startup, so you can be > quite sure not to use "bad" fonts because they are ignored by scribus. > > - Quality can also be measured by the number of glyphs provided. Do you > need to write Greek or Hebrew? Do you need German quotation marks, > umlauts? Good fonts usually have all or most of them (for that reason > many of the fonts shipped with SuSE are quite useless, unless you only > write English texts). > > - A good font family will offer you at least 3 varieties for regular, > italic and bold fonts, because in real typesetting you don't use the > "fake" italics and bold letters as most people are used to from their > word processor (that's, of course, not true for artistic or some ancient > fonts). > > With that in mind, you can start fishing for fonts ;-) > > Christoph > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
There are some hints here : http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=setup&page=fonts2 Cheers, Peter ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
