On Wednesday 01 December 2010 19:12:19 Edi Goetschel wrote: > It's a little bit confusing... In the Wiki Linoty is recommended as > goog place for fonts (http://http://www.linotype.com/). > > But: Can I use Linotype fonts with Linux? > > And if yes: Which type can I install? There are OpenType, > PostScript and TrueType fonts (for Mac and Windows). > > Thank you for your help! > > Edi > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus In my Slackware Linux system I put all types of fonts in /usr/share/fonts. There are separate subfolders as follows: 100dpi 75dpi OTF Speedo TTF Type1 cyrillic encodings misc util
/usr/share/fonts is the default place for Scribus to find fonts. Scribus finds the Type1, TTF and OTF flavors. Linotype is a font vendor of many decades experience. All their products are reliable. But you can also cadge some fonts from the GhostScript package and the TeX package. This means some rooting around using command line strings. For example you can do something like find / -name '*ttf' and find / -name '*TTF' to get the locations of all the Truetype fonts on your system. You can then link them into the /usr/share/fonts/TTF directory thus: ln (location)/fontname.ttf /usr/share/fonts/TTF You can also instruct Scribus to look in additional directories. See the Manual for details. -- John Culleton, typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
