[Scribus] Fonts on Cygwin, ARGH

Craig Bradney cbradney
Tue Apr 19 18:03:31 CEST 2005


On Tuesday 19 April 2005 17:58, Alex Brooks wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Firstly; this has nothing to do with the current GPL disscussion.
>
> In a nutshell, my problem is as follows:
>
> How do you get scribus to use more than the default font collection, on
> Cygwin?
>
>
>
> In more detail:
>
> a boat load of fonts (651) in /usr/share/fonts
> the directory has been chmod -R +rw
>
> AND I have run
> fc-cache -v -f
>
> the re-cache found them all, no probs.
> "fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": caching, 651 fonts, 0 dirs"
>
> but when I start Scribus, still the good ol' default ones.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, as I am still rather new to Linux
> (especially the complexities of Cygwin), although I do have a vague idea
> as to what I am doing.

The easiest way will be to add an additional path in the Settings->Fonts 
Additional Paths section.

Craig
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