[Scribus] Fonts on Debian (was Re: use fonts from "Xara" in

Paraplegic Racehorse paraplegic_racehorse
Tue Oct 18 04:21:45 CEST 2005


Craig Bradney wrote:

>On Monday 17 October 2005 23:05, Paraplegic Racehorse wrote:
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>
>>... it is somehow a Scribus issue.
>>
>>e.g. When I "apt-get install ttf-larabie-straight" the font is installed
>>and configured correctly. So, when I select a font in OpenOffice or some
>>other app, I see a great long list of fonts that were installed via apt.
>>
>>Scribus does not find these same fonts, yet Scribus uses fontconfig to
>>build its font list, yes? So, why can it not find all my fonts?
>>    
>>
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>Only 1.3.x is, if it finds it when built. It will also reject fonts it sees as 
>bad, via freetype. Run "scribus --font-info" (or -fi) in a terminal window 
>and see if its rejecting those fonts.
>
So, in order to get fonts installed more recently than Scribus (1.2.3,
BTW), I should reinstall Scribus?




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