[Scribus] Newbie font-question

[Peter Linnell]

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 18:13, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Peter Linnell wrote:
> []
> > I think Paul has done some testing compiling Scribus with the GPL Qt3
> > source on OSX, although I do not know the exact results. 
> 
> There are 2 versions of Qt for MacOSX, both of them free now. The Fink 
> package for Scribus uses X11 and works with qt-x11-free-3.1.2. I know 
> that people have compiled Scribus with Qt/Mac on OSX, but I don't know 
> how this works yet. Of course, if this works correctly, it would be 
> great, because running natively on OSX is always preferable to running 
> under X11. But I suspect the porting questions, and in particular the 
> font handling problems, will be quite different in both cases.
> 
> []
> > OK, now were getting somewhere. 
> > 
> > /sw/lib/X11/fonts is kind of the way Solaris packages third party and
> > GNU utilities. Is there some automatic mechanism for generating these in
> > OSX X11?  How are fonts.dir and fonts.scale generated ?  
> 
> /sw is Fink's private equivalent of /usr/local or /opt. Here are the 
> relevant lines from the install scripts of the applesystemfonts package. 
> They show how this can be done:
> 
>      find /Library/Fonts /Network/Library/Fonts /System/Library/Fonts 
> /Users/*/Library/Fonts  -name \*.dfont -print | while read file; do
>             fondu -force "$file"
>       done
> 
> Fondu <http://fondu.sourceforge.net/> is a special conversion tool for 
> Apple fonts that can create the usual pfb, ttf etc files from Apple font 
> files.
> 
>      %p/bin/ttfmkfontdir -o fonts.dir -m 10 -c
>      if test -x /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale; then 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale;
>      fi
> []
>      if test -x %p/bin/xfontpath; then
>          %p/bin/xfontpath --silent install applettf
>      fi
>      if grep -v -q `%p/bin/xfontpath 
> basedir`/applettf/etc/X11/XftConfig; then
>          echo dir \"`%p/bin/xfontpath basedir`/applettf\" >> 
> /etc/X11/XftConfig
>      fi
> 
> %p is short for /sw (or another base directory the user might have 
> chosen), and the usual xfree86 tools are used.
> 
> []
> >>There are a couple of other Fink packages containing fonts. I haven't 
> >>tried them, but I suppose they will be doing the right thing, too, to be 
> >>recognized by Scribus.
> > 
> > 
> > Could you see if this is the case?  Any hints you have would be welcome
> > and we can include them in the docs. Or other sources of info on how
> > Apple X11 handles fonts?
> 
> I have tried some other packages, msttcorefonts (ms meaning the obvious, 
> fonts like Arial, Verdana etc), gimp-freefonts and gimp-sharefonts (some 
> shareware fonts), and they seem to be recognized by Scribus without 
> further configuration.

Thanks for the update, explanation and for the links..I'll add them to
the links page in the docs. I am sure they will be useful for some
users.

Regards,
Peter