[Scribus] [Patch] MacOSX native

Craig Bradney cbradney
Sun Mar 13 21:57:58 CET 2005


On Sunday 13 March 2005 21:14, Martin Costabel wrote:
> Craig Bradney wrote:
> >>Concerning the Scribus application, here is first the good news: It
> >>seems that with this version of 1.3cvs, the colors are displayed
> >>correctly! There is also no problem with finding fonts. If one lists the
> >>fonts directories in ~/.scribus/scribusfont13.rc, at least the
> >>postscript fonts that can be used in X11 are seen also.
> >
> > Assuming fontconfig works on OSX this should cover you there, esp since
> > we will remove the X font finding soon enough.
>
> Freetype has some obscure configure flag, too, that is supposed to help
> with ancient Mac fonts, but I have no experience with this. Right now,
> scribus-aqua sees the Mac resource fork fonts after they are transformed
> into ttf using fondu. Fink has the applesystemfonts package that does
> this transformation for all available fonts. It is made for use with
> X11, but the resulting font directory can be used by scribus-aqua
> without X11.

Craig Ringer has tried this flag I think. Not sure of the results.

Craig
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