[scribus] Odd font issue

[Jonas Bechtel]

As TO didn't tell whether fonts are installed on the operating system _and/or_ available on Scribus, here some proposal:

On Debian distribution, there's "font-manager" package (from http://fontmanager.github.io/).

Can you then tell us:

Is the font available in Font Manager? (Do NOT add font repositories, Font Manager shows the present fonts automatically)
Is the font available in Scribus font list?

Typically you can install fonts in ~/.fonts (it is not good for security that this possibility exists, but good for testing), so you may try to copy font there if it is not present in Font Manager.

Best Regards
 Jonas




On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 11:12:57 +0200
Bert Driehuis <driehuis at playbeing.org> wrote with subject
"Re: [scribus] Odd font issue":

> On Linux, I'd expect fontconfig to manage the fonts, so indeed paths
> should not be an issue. I can't tell you off the cuff what could cause
> such differences, but if replacing the font by itself works there is a
> subtle difference between the systems as regards fontconfig, that much
> is sure.
> 
> If you still have the original file so you can reproduce the problem,
> try this. Save a copy of the file as test.sla aand test.sla.orig.
> Start Scribus, replace the font with itself and save the test.sla
> without making any other changes. Run a diff using diff -u
> test.sla.orig test.sla and see what changed.
> 
> As a side note, if the versions of Scribus differ you may see
> differences as a result of that. Scribus 1.5.3 completely revamped
> font handling internally, so that could cause discrepancies.
> 
> Report back here and we'll see if we can crack this nut!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bert
> 
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 5:17 AM Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/21/20 6:39 PM, Geoffrey Dow wrote:  
> > > Just a guess, but it might be that the file structures on your
> > > desktop and your laptop are not identical; could the font be in a
> > > folder in a different location or with a slightly different
> > > name?  
> >
> > I doubt it, as it always worked until now, and I've changed nothing.
> > Besides, what does the file structure on my desktop have to do with
> > how Scribus works on my laptop?
> >
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