[Scribus] font management?

Craig Bradney cbradney
Fri Apr 15 13:26:46 CEST 2005


On Friday 15 April 2005 11:11, Tariq Rashid wrote:
> probably in contrast to common thinking, i am in favour of scribus managing
> its own fonts.
>
> this means that:
>
>  * scribus is packaged (tar.gz) with its own fonts, even if they are
> duplicated
>   by the OS. this means that scribus is more robust to OS changes and
> mismanagement.
>   also scribus can then provide good qaulity fonts and support issues are
> much reduced.

As Craig Ringer said,  this wouldnt be appropriate as a downloadable as part 
of the main Scribus package.

What we plan is a method for you do be able to grab fonts from distributions' 
font repositories out on the net. It will tie in with the font replacement 
dialog when you dont have a font installed, and will allow network setups to 
have a common font dir to install from etc.

Craig
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