On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:02, Mark Muller wrote: > Okay, Thanks for the lcms.h missing file help Phil. Here goes for another > small issue you may or may not be able to help out with. > > Working as a professional repro guy I have access to all the Font libraries > from the various different vendors. Under MDK9.1rc2 I have been able to load > up various nice Type1 adobe faces - adobe garamond for example. This font > displays perfectly under OpenOffice 1.0.2 but when running Scribus0.9.8 the > face looks awful - I mean unuseable for any kind of typesetting or page > layout. Come to think of it any of the faces that appear in the list look > bloody awful ;)
I am fortunate to have a similar collection of tried and true Type 1 fonts, so I can understand your frustration. Some of the font display issues surfaced with changes in Qt3. As a side note, I have compiled older versions of Scribus on Solaris / Intel with Qt 2.2.2 and Sun's Xwindows. Solaris Xwin includes some of Adobe's display postscript technology and the fonts rendering looked beautiful. Actually, I should revive that little side project and post some screen caps.. we might get some Solaris folks working on this, as I find on the whole they are a pretty sharp bunch. That said, I think it is fair to say and I think both Franz and Paul would agree, upgrading Qt to 3.1.2 will improve screen rendering of fonts, especially at 100% view, which was more typical in Scribus 0.6. on Linux. > > Secondly on reopening Scribus the typefaces do not even appear in the font > list ? Is this normal behavior ?? No, this due to some of the font matching patterns in the fontconfig libraries in Xft2. I wrote a separate set of notes regarding this with Red Hat 8.0, which has similar issues. www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/redhat80.html Simply put, fontconfig while it is an excellent general purpose font matching and rendering solution, is still a work in progress. I am going to test the latest package in the few days to see how it works with Scribus. Hope that helps, Peter
