[scribus] Fonts problem after move from windows to linux

[Peter Linnell]

On 12/04/2011 12:00 PM, JLuc wrote:
> Le 04/12/2011 20:50, JLuc a écrit :
>> Hello,
>>
>> i worked on a scribus document with arial font on windows 7
>> and was about to continue the work on linux (ubuntu oneiric).
>>
>> When opening it, scribus said it had to replace non existing font with
>> other,
>> and proposed to do so with bitstream charter (for regular, italic,
>> bold and bold italic)
>> or to choose other replacement fonts.
>> I noticed the arial font were there up in the list,
>> (and they were prefixed with a "S" in a shiny green square,
>> showing that Scribus *knew* what it should have done right !!!!!)
>> so i asked to replace arial regular with arial regular,
>> arial italic with arial itlalic etc.
>>
>> The document could open then, but all arial fonts were bitstream !
>> The whole document uses styles, and all styles were set to bitstream.
>>
>> I tried again with or without checking "make change permanent", same
>> happens.
>> I tried with other files of same project, same happens.
>>
>> So, how could i do work with linux on these files ?
>
> Hmm there is no Arial font on ubuntu !
>
> So i installed arial, and now everything was fine.
>
> It would have been more friendly if scribus would not have shown me
> the missing fonts in the replacement list :-)
>
> JLuc
>

It could be a default /etc/fonts/ in Ubuntu which does this.

What does 'grep -Ri arial  /etc/fonts/*'  show ?

Peter



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