[Scribus] Scribus for Mac OS X

Craig Bradney cbradney
Wed Jan 31 10:41:43 CET 2007


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> Subject: Re: [Scribus] Scribus for Mac OS X
> From: Michael Crisci <macrisci at gmail.com>
> To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
> Date: 31-01-2007 5:28
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> 
> Hello,
> 
>     I checked all my FONT areas, and after I went through your list  
> and compared each folder, I found out that both lists are exact.
> No fonts were moved out of the recommended folders. Now I also have  
> these fonts in my user/library/font folder:
> 
> 
> Symbol
> AdobeFnt07.lst
> ARDS1
> BalmoNor
> Balmoral.scr
> Batang.ttf
> Bodon
> BodonBol
> BodonBolIta
> Bodoni.scn
> BodonIta
> BodonMTUltBolIta
> BodonOpe
> BodonReg
> BodonRegObl
> BodonUltBol
> BookmDem
> BookmDemIta
> BookmLig
> BookmLigIta
> Casual
> Christmas font
> CWMAGIK_.ttf
> DomCas
> DomCasBol
> Goodfish-Bold Italic.suit
> Goodfish-Bold.suit
> Goodfish-Italic.suit
> Goodfish.suit
> Gulim.ttf
> Handsign.ttf
> MS Gothic.ttf
> MS Mincho.ttf
> MS PGothic.ttf
> MS PMincho.ttf
> Myriad Music Fonts 4.0
> PMingLUI.ttf
> Roughwork
> SimSun.ttf
> Symbo
> 
> 
>     I went to move them and the Asian fonts, (being careful to  
> indicate to myself where they came from), and restarted my machine.
> 
> A real mess ensued after that!
> The machine wouldn't get beyond a certain point, I had to keep  
> rebooting, I did a safe boot, I checked permissions, I used Onyx, and  
> it just was
> a real mess.  Finally, I replaced everything the way it was before I  
> started back into their respective font folders, and rebooted. I was  
> finally back to normal.
> That was almost a whole night's work.
> 
>     Okay, I want to tell you that Scribus can't possibly be worth  
> this problem. I realized that many of the fonts must belong to menu  
> items that I use on an everyday basis. As you can see, my list isn't  
> that long, so I can't imagine having to go through all this work just  
> to run Scribus. I also deleted all the scribus files and program, re- 
> downloaded it, and started fresh. I still have the same problems.
> 
> 
> Michael Crisci
> 

First time start up, even under Rosetta on mine (2ghz core duo) was under 5
mins, I have only the standard system fonts installed.

Your system should not require those fonts, unless you are using them in
your GUI.

Regards
Craig
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