On Thursday 12 July 2007 12:35, HARENDAL .h wrote: > >From: John Jason Jordan > > > >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? > Using my new Scribus 133x svn version I have come upon another set of peculiaritiy.
Situation one: I add text via the story editor. All my usual fonts are available. Situation two: I insert text from an odt file. Some fonts are not available so Scribus asks me on each one what I should substitute. The good news---it gives me a complete selection of fonts. The bad news, if I select anything other than from a small subset it just goes through the motions but ignores what I picked. Situation three: I am creating a style. It doesn't even pretend to give me a full selection to choose from. I only get the subset. Now what is the small subset? Basically it is the fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts These are mostly Truetype. And none of them are italic. Now on Linux there is a thingie called fc-cache that is supposed to be the index of all fonts used by applications. Take Bitstream Charter Italic for example: I can reach it through the Scribus storybook. I can reach it with Inkscape. I can reach it with Gimp. I can reach it with Krita. Why not with a Scribus style? And what is with the odt import shenanigans? -- John Culleton
