On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 11:52, Ralf H?ling wrote: > Hi all! > > Am 20.03.2004 um 18:20 schrieb Ralf H?ling: > >> > >> Scribus does a very good job of supporting OTF (thanks Franz!) > >> Scribus can > >> access all the glyphs in an Open Type Font, as well as embed them > >> properly in > >> EPS, PS and PDF (a tough issue to solve btw). > > > > But Scribus is the only application I use, that doesn't want to > > recognize AgfaRotis and I want this font. > > Even Inkscape and Sodipodi work well with this font, only Scribus > > doesn't. In Mac-Applications I never recognized a problem either. > > I've looked around a little and found that there are many fonts of > different kind that aren't recognised by scribus but work fine in > Inkscape, for example: Chicago (Apple Trutype), Univers (Adope PS > Type1), Frutiger (PS Type1). > >> > >> 1. Cross-font. Which is a shareware application which runs on > >> Windows. This > >> handles Mac PS > TTF pretty well. > > > > I will try. > I tried with all tricks (compressing with stuffit, installing stuffit > for windows, etc.) but it doesn't work :-( > So I can't imagine that any dtp-professional would throw all his > expensive fonts away and buy new ones, even if they were available just > to work with Scribus. And what I can't understand is that theese fonts > work without any problem on the same machine also under X11 with > Inkscape. > Don't get me wrong, I like Scribus very much and there are great > improvements, but as long as most of my fonts don't work in Scribus I > can't use it. I hope in the future the font-management will be as good > as in Inkscape or sodipodi.
Wait until Inkscape 0.38 for a comparison of the font systems. Their system is getting a rewrite and will be more like the Scribus one. Then we can compare. These fonts may not work in Inkscape then either. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040321/8bbcd459/attachment.pgp
