Hi all...I'm a Mac OS X (Panther version) user who just installed Fink and Scribus today for the first time. It all went reasonably well, and from my initial poking around, Scribus looks like a great program. I've worked extensively in Quark, but this looks like a viable alternative. (I'd like to see an Aqua interface instead of X11, but I can live with that.)
I'm having one problem, though: I can't get Scribus to recognize my existing collection of Type1 and TrueType fonts. The only fonts currently available are Bitstream Charter, Courier, Luxi and Utopia. I have dozens of other fonts on my computer.
I tried following the instructions which said to go to Edit->Preferences->Fonts and add "Additional Paths," but none of the fonts in the paths I added are showing up. I've tried it with a folder that contains Type1 fonts, and a folder that contains TrueType. The name of the TrueType font file is "Bickley Script LET Fonts." The Type1 font that I tried was "Arnold Boecklin," and the files in that font folder are named "ArnolBoe" (for the print font) and "Arnold Boecklin" (for the screen font).
You can get all the Apple system fonts recognized by scribus if you install the applesystemfonts package. For your own fonts, it depends on their format what to do. You could try to run "fondu" on them, i.e. go to a temporary directory and run
fondu ~/Library/Fonts/Bickley\ Script\ LET\ Fonts
or whatever the file name is. If fondu recognizes the format, it will produce a *.ttf file which you can then place where scribus will find it, or use the xfontpath mechanism to make it known to X11, so that scribus will see it automatically.
It is probably best to have a look at the applesystemfonts.info file and see how it is done there.
-- Martin
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