On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:29:29 -0400 "John Brown" <johnbrown105 at hotmail.com> dijo:
> John Jason Jordan wrote: > >The other day I downloaded and installed three of the ADF fonts on my > >Ubuntu Feisty computer. I put them in ~/.fonts, then ran sudo fc-cache > >-f, but the fonts did not appear in Scribus. I closed and restarted > >Scribus, but still no fonts. Then I rebooted the computer, but the > >fonts still do not appear. > Kubuntu provides an applet for installing fonts in the Control Panel. > Maybe Ubuntu has something similar. In Gnome the file browser is Nautilus and someone once told me a clever way to install fonts. You open a Search window and type "fonts:" or "fonts//" or something like that and it opens a window showing all your installed fonts, including fonts intalled globally. Then you can just drag your new fonts into the window. Unfortunately, I didn't right down the exact syntax and now I can't find it. > >They also do not appear in any other application, so evidently > >something more basic is wrong. What is the secret to getting fonts to > >work? > Do your new fonts appear when you run fc-list? Is it possible that Scribus > does not use fontconfig to find fonts? They did appear when I ran fc-list. And subsequently I launched Scribus and they are now available. They are also available in OpenOffice.org now. Other than running fc-list I did nothing. That is, nothing other than restarting the computer about three times. But that had only to do with the fact that we're in a heat wave (hit 40 today) and I kept shutting down anything that might generate the slightest bit of heat. So the font issue is resolved. I just wish I knew what finally made them work. Thanks to you and Greg for the suggestions.
