> I don't really understand how scribus and inkscape are finding their > fonts. Both use freetype and fontconfig, but it seems to me > they are not > using quite the same mechanism. Scribus seems to detect only > those fonts > that are already known to the running X11 server, i.e. those > in the Font > Path given by 'xset -q', whereas inkscape manages to look > also in some > other system directories. But I don't really know what I am talking > about here.
yep. scribus search the X11 font paths. You can specify any additional paths in preferences. There is one more thing - Scribus use own font names (PS names) for all combinations of font family - bold/italic/regular... petr
