[Scribus] much happier about fonts

[bart at solozone.com]

Things are much better actually with 1.1.1  
The experience I have is very odd, though. Because my  
Windows (!) box collapsed and the Linux side saw only GRUB  
1.5 I re-installed Linux and abandoned Windows. Fine. Not  
any one else's problem.  
Then I compiled Scribus and had to upgrade to libart_lgpl  
and of course in knew that SuSE 8.1 needed xdevel and the  
special SuSE qt3 and qt3-devel upgrades from their site.  
The compile on P-III 6000 was 30 mins.   
I manually added the fonts paths from Corel Draw I had  
archived  
~/TYPE1/A, ../../B, ../../C, ../../D,  
for the letters of the alphabet which indicate the first  
letter of the font name  
And presto! I do not really see any speed up but I am sure  
this has been carefully studied.  
  
Ok now since so many people want the font preview feature  
while in fact it has been abandoned with I suppose good  
reason, I SUGGEST:  
a FEATURE: Tools --> "Font Preview"  
thus you eat your cake and have it, too!  
What a smart fellow am I! :-)  
 P. S. Since I have given up on Windows platform I give up  
on true type, also  
  
P. P. S. The reason for my Windows collapse is absolutely  
comical (I used an obsolete McCaffee Web Scan program that  
wrecked all my *.exe associations! Ugh!)  
  
Bart Alberti  
bart at solozone.com