Dear list, I am interested in the new OpenType support of the Scribus development version. The website states that
Scribus [as per 1.1.1] now can fully support for Open Type fonts, including sub-setting in PDF and postscript. All glyphs are accessible including expert sets, true small capitals, old style figures and enhanced ligatures.. What do you mean by ?can? in that statement? As far as actual OpenType support is concerned, according to my experiments with 1.1.2 that seems to be pretty much limited to GPOS support (what I got working was horizontal GPOS kerning with Microsoft?s Times New Roman font). Scribus did not seem able to perform GSUB ligature substitution, nor does there seem to be OpenType support for non?Latin scripts. (At least not for Devan?gar?. While this may not be a high priority for current users, it would be nice having seeing that QT, GTK, OpenOffice and Yudit all now support it.) Could you please give some details on what parts of OpenType Scribus verifiably supports at the moment? If any of the abovementioned non?working features are supposed to be working, I?ll be happy to give more details about my fonts and setup to help debug the issue. Many thanks, Stefan Baums -- Stefan Baums Asian Languages and Literature University of Washington
