[Scribus] Free fonts, their behavior and Scribus

[Maciej Hanski]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 09:06:57 +0100
Craig Bradney <cbradney at zip.com.au> wrote:

> On Friday 04 March 2005 08:56, marvindickens at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > Today, I was looking around the wiki for Scribus and noticed
> > the message from Peter Linnell regarding the quality and
> > correctness of free fonts and their usage in Scribus. After
> > reading it, I wondered:
> >
> > Is there a list of free fonts that are known to behave well on
> > screen and in print? If not, it seems to me that there should be and
> > that it would make sense to have the list on the Scribus wiki.
> >
> > Of course, most people know about the bitstream and the MS core
> > fonts and such. I was thinking that it would be nice to have a list
> > of decent free fonts other than the obvious ones...
> 
> Sounds like a perfectly good time to start a page on the wiki.. 
> 
> It would be worth producing a font table showing:
> - Known good for professional printing (top quality font, prefer
> these)- Known good for printing (eg. breaks a RIP but prints ok on a
> bubblejet)- Known good for web/presentations (actually loads and
> renders in Scribus and its PDFs ok.. but its a nasty font for
> printing/RIPing)- Known bad (send to /dev/null)

Please add:

 - Know good  for international or non-Latin1 usage (Unicode, Latin-2,
   Cyrillic, Hebrew, etc. )
 

BTW, there already is an article on fonts in the FAQ series:

http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Where_can_I_get_good_fonts%3F

and the Scribus site lists some good free fonts too:

http://www.scribus.org.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=viewlink&cid=3

We could start with both to produce the font table mentioned above.

cheers
Maciej