[scribus] missing deja vu font (Was: Version 1.5.3 not running nicely under OpenSuse Leap 42.3)

[ZASKE Martin]

Thank you a.l.e,

I was again off desk most of today. I will check this tomorrow in the
office. If Debian and Ubuntu have got freetype, I guess OpenSuse will
have it too...



And thank you friendly person who has fixed this mail-list.

Martin


On 17.09.2017 09:04, ale rimoldi wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> - Got error message about unavailable font (three different cuts of
>> DejaVu), so we opted to replace by the freshly installed versions of
>> DejaVu and clicked for the make-permanent option. This did not work.
>> The document-setup font list does mention the replacements, but they
>> are not done, document shows Charis! Also Scribus had proposed SIL
>> Charis for replacing DejaVu Sans and now the available fonts list
>> looks rather sick, listing DejaVu as belonging to the Charis SIL
>> family. There is something quite wrong here.
>> 	Every time we open the document again, we get the same error
>> about needing to replace those fonts, even when we did already and
>> had ticked "make permanent".
>> 	I remember reading something on this list about other users
>> having issues with certain fonts. So maybe the initial message should
>> not read "replace unavailable fonts ..." but something like "Scribus
>> now hates DejaVu; do not replace it but say goodbye to any text-frame
>> which is concerned".
> 
> that's a freetype issue
> 
> As of January 2017, Debian testing and Ubuntu 16.04/16.10 was
> distributing a version of the freetype library (2.6.3) that is affected
> by a bug that prevents Scribus from loading outlines of some glyphs
> with the DejaVu font (and others).
> 
> Freetype 2.6.5 contains a fix for this issue. The fix might already be
> in the 2.6.4 version.
> 
> Debian testing now has 2.8.0, which does not contain bug affecting the
> way DejaVu is seen by Scribus. Scribus will not automatically recognize
> again DejaVu, you first have to manually force Scribus to re-create the
> font cache by
> 
> - quitting Scribus,
> - removing (or, better renaming) the
>   ~/.config/scribus/checkfonts150.xml file
> - starting scribus
> 
> so, it's not scribus hating dejàvu...
> just wait for freetype being updated (or update freetype)
> 
> 
> ciao
> a.l.e
> 
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