On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:54:37 -0800 John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:
>Scribus 1.3.8 and Fontmatrix 0.6.99 on Fedora 13, x86_64. > >Two perplexing issues: > >1) Scribus finds the following fonts, which do not exist on the >computer, as far as I can tell: > >Hershey-Gothic-English >Hershey-Gothic-German >Hershey-Gothic-Italian >Hershey-Plain-Duplex >Hershey-Plain-Duplex-Italic >Hershey-Plain-Triplex >Hershey-Plain-Triplex-Italic >Hershey-Script-Complex >Hershey-Script-Simplex > >A filesystem search on Hershey turned up nothing, although the file >name could be something else. More interestingly, Fontmatrix does not >find them. Note: Fontmatrix crashes if any fonts are modified or >deleted while it is running. And it does not refresh the font list >when it is launched unless you manually delete the .Fontmatrix folder >to force it to rebuild its list of fonts. I deleted the .Fontmatrix >folder, but Fontmatrix still does not see any fonts named Hershey. > >Even more interesting, applying any of the Hershey fonts to text in >Scribus causes the text to appear as all underscores in the canvas. > >Google turned up a website which lists even more Hershey fonts and says >they are "fonts converted from Hershey outlines." Apparently the site >lists Type 1 fonts to be used with Ghostscript. > >Any elucidation is welcome. Never mind, I finally found them. They are all .pfa files in /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/. The only question is why they suddenly appear in Scribus. They never used to. And no other application sees them. They are also singularly hideous. I went into Preferences > Fonts and unchecked them all so Scribus will not use them.
