On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:22:49 +0200 PLinnell <mrdocs at scribus.info> wrote:
> Hi, > > These notes are part of an addtion I am making to the 1.2.2 docs. > > On Monday 06 June 2005 18:41, Maciej Hanski wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 11:20:22 +0200 > > > > Maciej Hanski <ma_han2000 at yahoo.de> wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > > > 2. Luxi Mono, Luxi Sans, Luxi Serif: > > -How much pro quality are these typefaces? > > I've not seen print or PDF related errors in my testing in any of the > Luxi fonts. This includes using EPS and PDFs on win32 and Macs. > > > -Luxi Serif is a modern typeface, right? > Yes, and Luxi Sans Mono is a decent mono space font. > > -What are these fonts typically used for? > > > Luxi Sans is a great UI font if you like the style. RH8 used this as > the default, but used a bit too much anti-aliasing for my taste. RH9 > was much better. > > Luxi Serif Regular is a bit too narrow or condensed for lengthy text > in my opinion, but for call outs or a contrasting section, it works > fine. > > There are true type versions of Luxi available, but be warned they > will not display well on Win32 owing to hinting tailored to X11. They > will print fine however. The Vera family is somewhat the same.. they > look better on a modern X11 release than Win32 in my experience. > > > Font sample: > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Darmowe_polskie_fonty_przeznaczon > >e_do_druku#Luxi_Mono > > > > 3. URW Gothic L Book and Century Schoolbook L. These fonts are > > included into the Ghostscript Standard Package (e.g. "emerge > > gnu-gs-fonts-std" on Gentoo) and "cyrrilized" by Valek Filipov > > > > - How much pro quality are these typefaces? > > - What is Gothic L Book typically used for? > > Gothic is mostly for headline, short bodies of text and can be used > for advertising. I've seen the Adobe counterpart, Avant Garde used > extensively in advertising, brochures, invitations and other pieces. > > > > Font samples: > > > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Darmowe_polskie_fonty_przeznaczon > >e_do_druku#Century_Schoolbook_L > > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Darmowe_polskie_fonty_przeznaczon > >e_do_druku#URW_Gothic_L_Book > > > > > > ANY help will be appreciated > > Maciej > > > > It is a mixed bag with "cyrrilized" fonts based on the URW++ > originals. > > There have been many different releases merged into the gs-fonts > collection and I also understand the motivation of distros for using > them. Good freely available Cyrillic fonts are not wide spread. Bugs > in Fontforge have caused issues with some of the releases, which > required re-issuing the fonts a few times. > > I know for example, one of the URW++ fonts shipped with Suse 9.x gets > dropped on loading in 1.3 with the sanity checks being done by > Scribus. Yes, this was duly reported to Suse, as well. > > Scribus by design (to prevent crashes) and by capability (it does > things with fonts few free apps can do). Scribus will be by necessity > far fussier about fonts than most other apps. > > I can recommend trying the artifex release of the URW fonts in true > type form. Plus there are additional faces which are nicely done like > Classico and Coronet. > > Peter Thank you very much, Peter, that's exactly the answer I've needed :) Maciej ___________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB Speicher kostenlos - Hier anmelden: http://mail.yahoo.de
