On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:46, Ping Yeh wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded and compiled Scribus 1.1.1 on my Linux box. > I was following the tutorial > http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/docs/page1.html > to learn Scribus. But somehow I could not enter any text, > the textbox is always blank no matter what I type (I tried > to change colors). Every character from "Get Text" is > displayed as a hollow square. I'm sure this must be a > trivial problem somewhere in the configuration, but I have > struggled for one day with no results. Any help on getting > me started with using Scribus would be appreciated, thanks! > > Regards, > Ping > > p.s. The "documentation" link > http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/documentation/ > doesn't work now. Will fix that - thanks. > > My system: > > Red Hat 7 based Linux box with some minor patches > QT: x11-free-3.2.1 (tarball make) > Ghostscript: ghostscript-6.51-20 (rpm) Gs 6.53 is the recommended minimum and 7.05 or 7.07 is even better. > Type1 fonts: urw-fonts-1.0.7pre22 (tarball make) > Truetype fonts: ttfonts-1.0-4 (rpm) > lcms: 1.11 (tarball make) > freetype: 2.1.1-3 (rpm)
The minimum is 2.1.3 and 2.1.4 recommended. > libart_lgpl: 2.3.16 (tarball make) I would also recommend install the MS web fonts they work very well with Scribus. Hope that helps, Peter
