[scribus-dev] Adding fonts to the Scribus installers and Georgian sample text

["Christoph Schäfer"]

Hi guys,

Another suggestion: Wouldn't it make sense to ship the Liberation fonts and Linux Libertine with Scribus? Both contain a large number of glyphs and support all current sample texts. In this case we could set Libertine with its large number of ligatures as the default font after installation. For Linux packages, the installer could check whether the font is already available (possible?), on Windows (where it is unlikely), the user could be asked during installation, as it is now with Ghostscript and Bitstream. The fonts have had their merits, but outside countries using the Latin alphabet they're pretty useless.

I also wanted to suggest to include sample texts in the Georgian alphabets (there are two, Chutsuri and Mchedruli), if we find them. I recently found myself using sample texts to quickly check whether a font supports certain scriptures, and having Georgian available would add another useful test. Georgian is influenced by Greek, and it's written from left to right, so that I don't think the alphabet can be called a "complex script".

What do you think?

Christoph
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