wtb41 wrote: > The Mac system as I understand it handles fonts far more simply than Linux. > The Mac > system puts all of its system fonts in one folder--the System/Fonts folder. > Scribus tells > me that the system fonts on my Linux box are in 8 separate folders. Can you > please > explain to me the reason for 8 folders rather than 1 folder? > Others may have better answers than I, but my sense of this is that the fonts in Linux come from a variety of separate projects, each of which has had its own approach to storing fonts. Linux is just an OS, not that plus a number of strictly coordinated apps. Therefore, there has never been any person or group to say, "fonts will go here and only here."
Greg
