[scribus] OT - Fontmatrix

Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com
Sun Dec 27 23:38:19 CET 2009


On 12/28/09, John Jason Jordan wrote:

>>Coincidentally Gucharmap utility from GNOME used to display a list of
>>fonts that have a particular chosen glyph.
>
> Oh no! Never use that thing. It caused me hours of grief, including
> embarrassment when I complained that Scribus was not displaying a glyph
> that it said was in the font I was using.
>
> It does an acceptable job when you open the regular font of a
> particular face. But when you switch to the italic, bold, or
> bold-italic version it fakes the glyphs based on what was in the
> regular version. Thus, if a glyph exists in the regular version of the
> face, but not in the italic, bold, or bold-italic version, you will
> never know that it is missing in the other versions.

And the number of your bugzilla record on that is... ? :)

P.S. Did the search thing in Glyphs tab work for you? :)

Alexandre




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