On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 15:08, Bill Carini wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:46:54PM -0400, Peter Linnell wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 12:16, Bill Carini wrote: > > > I compiled Scribus 1.1.1 from the tarball. It is not finding my Truetype > > > fonts in /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType > > > In the Edit-->Preferences-->Fonts dialog the Additional Fonts tab is > > > grayed-out. > > > > > > Can someone give some more information about how 1.1.1 (and freetype2) go > > > about locating fonts? > > > > Do you have a doc open? You cannot add or delete font paths with a doc > > open. > > Yes. Sorry, I know this has come up before in the list. > > After adding my TrueType directory to "Additional Paths", my > fonts still wouldn't show up. > > Copying my TrueType fonts to /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/ > did work, however. > > None of my fonts (I have Postscript and TrueType) are previewing correctly in > the > Select Fonts dialog: they all look the same. (actually, I guess one of them > *is* > previewing correctly!) > > 1.1.0 would find all of my fonts and preview correctly. > > --Bill > > Because of the changes in the font discovery mechanism, the previews are no longer available - it was done through Qt, which is no longer used for font listing.
However, there is a benefit: Selecting fonts is *much* faster, especially with lots of fonts. There will be far fewer problems with Scribus finding fonts, as fonts.dir and fonts.scale are no longer needed. With 100+ fonts it really makes a difference in the speed of the drop down list. IMO this is overall a needed improvement. Moreover, both major desktops, Gnome (has via fontilus) and KDE (will in 3.2 via Kfontinstaller) have font previewers built-in. Just my opinion, but I am happy with the changes. Regards, Peter
