tech at atlantictechsolutions.com wrote: >IIRC, you have RH 8.0. > Yes.
>First, add ./fonts to your home directory. Then drop the fonts you want to >install. > Did that. I included local.conf. Was that right? >Then open a console and do the following: > >$ mkfontscale >$ mkfontdir >$ fc-cache -v -f ./ > I was unclear here whether to do this in ~ or in /.fonts. I ended up doing both. It said it succeeded both times. >Then go to: http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/fontprefs.html > >and add this directory to scribus font preferences panel *without* a doc open. >There will be slight pause as Scribus refreshes Xfree's font paths. > OK, I did all that. >Then these new fonts will be available to Scribus. > This part didn't happen. The fonts were not there, even after restarting Scribus. I had verified that the path I used was correct (/home/esteban/.fonts), but after restarting, I couldn't reverify it, because "Additional paths" was grayed out. >The docs relating to font handling need quite a bit of rewriting, as Franz has >added a lot more capabilities with Unicode, freetype etc. The new font >preference setup works very well for me, provided you have correct fonts.scale >and fonts.dir in each font directory listed in your font path. > Well, maybe that's the problem. Where would I get these? >Overall, these are great enhancements which will make font handling easier for >end users over time. > I look forward to it. This issue is the only thing holding me on proprietary software. >Regards, >Peter > -- Steve ===== You fell for one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia. - Vizzini, The Princess Bride
