Hi Peter! Am Dienstag, 19.08.03, um 07:29 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Peter Linnell:
> On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 12:44, Ralf H?ling wrote: >> Am Sonntag, 17.08.03, um 21:05 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Peter >> Linnell: >> > This is where OSX meets old X11 and they do not work quite the same > way.. lower case font names are pretty standard in Linux and IIRC > Solaris. O.K., I will try to rename some fonts and have a look if it works better. >>> >>> With the latest versions of KDE 3.1.1+, I have found the >>> Kfontinstaller >> I think this is not available for MacOSX. > > True. One of the big complaints about OSX when it was released vs. > MacOS > 8/9 was font management. I do not know if it has improved. Now it's very good, no problem using any kind of fonts, even windows-fonts, which always was a problem under Mac OS 7-9 >>> >>> Scribus is necessarily quite particular about how your fonts are >>> installed and configured. Not a bug - a feature IMNSHO. >> I think there was someone with the name of Bill who also told people >> the same about his software ;-) > > No it is true. Less to do with OSX, than the general mess of fonts in > Xfree86 on Linux. This is right, I think. > >>> In the DTP world >>> crappy broken fonts or poor installation cause lots of problems. >> I work with my fonts on Mac for over ten years without any problem >> and now they shall be crappy? > > Nope. Just remember Scribus can only use Type1 and True Type fonts. > Open > Type font support is in the works. As above, the standard fonts in > Xfree86 on Linux are not the best for DTP. With a Mac, this is far far > less of a problem. Yes, I think so. > > X11 and thus Scribus depends on the fonts.scale and fonts.dir in each > font directory to be perfect or not all the fonts will show. I found very much but very different about using fonts in Linux/FreeBSD/X11 but I'm no hacker and no geek, so is there any documentation about font-management in *nix and X11, so that the fonts will be usable in Scribus? Where is the directory with fonts.scale and fonts.dir? >>> > > I think it is important to keep in mind a few things. > > 1. While we really do appreciate the folks who have done the porting > work for Scribus, none of the main developers runs or test OSX on their > own. This is a pity for them and for me, I think ;-) > > 2. the X11 from Apple is a bit different and has been modified to work > with OSX, so incompatibilites will show up in complex apps like > Scribus. I understand. > > 3. We cannot fix things if we do not have hints were the problems lie > and how they might be fixed. I can give you hints, but as you see, I don't know much about Linux/Unix and X11. Please don't get me wrong, I appreciate your tips very much, but I was a little bit disappointed when I recognized, that my favourite fonts don't work with scribus. Best regards Ralf
