For what it's worth, I just used Scribus to create the one-line PDF. The resulting PDF is perfect.
wtb41 wrote: > >> Tobias Hilbricht wrote: > >>So you did not install them with spadmin additionally, as I did with my >>working font installation. > > This morning I did as you suggested. I installed the font "aditionally" > using spadmin. But first I ran fc-list, and the resulting list showed the > font as present. It was present because I had installed it as described in > my prior posts on this thread. The long list began as follows (copying & > pasting): > > Adobe Garamond:style=Italic Expert > Adobe Garamond:style=Regular Expert > AR PL SungtiL GB,???????????????:style=Regular > Bitstream Charter:style=Bold > Bitstream Charter:style=Bold Italic > > The first 2 items on that list are the fonts, but I did not used the > italic in producing the one-line PDF. After installing the font > "additionally" using spadmin, I typed the same one-line string of > characters into a new Writer document. I exported it to a PDF, and I got > the exact same mess I got previously. I even named the PDF after you > (Tobias.pdf). Even that did not solve the problem. If you want to see your > namesake, I gladly will e-mail it to you. Presumably, every installer on > my system uses the library fontconfig. The command fc-list does. > > Looking at the issue logically, one would think that installing a font as > a system font using KDE's FontInstaller should suffice. The font clearly > was available to Writer before today's exercise. I saw it on the screen in > the Writer document, and the font entered the PDF, but imperfectly. Have > you any more thoughts as to the source of the problem? > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Open-Source-Software-and-Book-Authors-tf2827027.html#a7917267 Sent from the Scribus mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
