[Scribus] problem with Nimbus Mono font

David Goodenough david.goodenough
Thu Jan 11 16:44:03 CET 2007


On Thursday 11 January 2007 15:24, avox wrote:
> David Goodenough wrote:
> > I have been using Scribus for a while now to produce the reference sheet
> > for our Village News.  This contains diary entries, useful phone numbers
> > and train and bus timetables.
> >
> > For the timetables I had settled on using Nimbus Mono.  They are laid out
> > in vertical columns with a single space between the columns.  Until my
> > last upgrade (I am now using 1.3.3.6 on Debian unstable) this worked well
> > and all the numbers and the spaces were the same width.  Now in spite of
> > being a Mono font, the numbers are varying in width.
> >
> > The font is set through a style which is set on each line in the story
> > editor.
> >
> > If I go into the Font Preview, the font is shown as a properly fixed
> > pitch font.
>
> Please file a bug on http://bugs.scribus.net and add your .sla if possible.
> Is this issue the same with other monospaced fonts?
Changing to another Mono font fixed the problem (if it is important Nimbus is
a PS font, the one that worked is a TT font).

I will try to create a test case and submit it as a bug.

David
>
> /Andreas



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