[Scribus] fonts suse 9.1 vs 9.2

Tino Schwarze scribus.lists
Thu Mar 10 10:10:14 CET 2005


On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:36:58PM -0800, bart at solozone.com wrote:
> OK, I will tell you what has happened. I culled the "bad fonts" on
> SuSe 9.2 under scribus1.3.0cvs and put them in a "bad_fonts" folder.
> Fine. I went through the 'font preview' one by one.
> 
> HERE I AM under 9.1 and these same fonts are OK!! Do not tell me
> fontconfig rejects them (as user fonts all BTW). 9.1 uses XFree86 and
> 9.2 uses X.org, yes/no? Is THIS what is going on? I do not think the
> previous replies to my queries really got this subtlety. The system
> fonts that SuSe used to ship (Omega e.g) have vanished. How can one do
> DTP when one's OS stabs one in the back?

I suppose that the fonts shipped with 9.1 are available for free, so it
would be a good time to grab them and make them available on some
Scribus-related page.

Bye, Tino.





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