[scribus] Default font for Story editor.

Craig Bradney cbradney at scribus.info
Sun Jun 28 14:45:25 UTC 2015





> On 28 Jun 2015, at 17:43, John Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 22:51:26 +0200
> Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On 27 Jun 2015, at 23:01, John Culleton
>>> <john at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Scribus 1.4.6 and other Scribuses tend to
>>> default to the first available font in
>>> alphabetic order. In my case this is
>>> aGaramond italic. I can override this in the
>>> Style editor, but is there a way to define my
>>> default font globally, i.e. always there when
>>> I fire up a new session?
>>> 
>>> And a related question: how do I eliminate the
>>> many unneeded fonts and have that deletion
>>> last through multiple recompiles? All those
>>> Middle Eastern and Indian etc. fonts are of
>>> interest to some users but I work exclusively
>>> in English. I am thinking of a solution where
>>> Scribus looks in in a directory other
>>> than /usr/safe/fonts. Scrolling through
>>> hundreds of fonts over and over when I only
>>> use less than 50 is no fun.
>> 
>> If you don’t use them, why not remove them from
>> your system?
> 
> I update my copies of Scribus every night, and
> AFAIK the fonts come with the updates.
>> 
>> 

No they don't. They are on your system from your distribution.

Craig


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