On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 16:56, Fred Albrecht wrote: > Craig Bradney wrote: > > > I'm not sure about the PDF export issue, will look into that with Franz. > > Thanks :) > > > If you look in the "Insert Special" window within Scribus when editing a > > text frame you will see all of the glyphs available to Scribus within a > > font. > > What is "Insert special" supposed to do ? When I select that menu item > nothing happens.
Be in text editing mode when editing within a frame, or within the Story Editor. Then it will activate and work. Minor menu item issue.. will be fixed. > I started scribus from a terminal to see if anything went to STDERR but > it doesn't seem to complain about anything. > > Oh, there is this when Scribus starts : > > Loading required GL library /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 > Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> > Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> > Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] > 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback > > maybe it's related ? What is that <prefix> ? Is it something like > /usr/lib/scribus/plugins ? How about <exec_prefix> ? The docs don't seem > to adress that point... I dont think its related at all.. looks like a python issue, is Python found when you build Scribus? $PREFIX depends on the distro, can be /usr/local or /usr for example. > > Any other glyphs do not exist, and you can confirm with pfaedit. > > I never installed font editors, I have mostly been using gucharmap, the > Unicode character map viewer from the Gnome desktop to look at available > glyphs (although it does have the tendency to show Unicode glyphs even > when they aren't supported by the selected font). gucharmap will substitute from other fonts. Use Insert Special to find available glyphs, now u know how to activate it. > > I'm not sure how you are using 202F and with Vera Sans > > though, I just get a square in Scribus. > > Same here. I inserted it by copying it from gucharmap and pasting it > into Scribus (in the Story Editor). > > > I do however get the 00A0 > > working fine within Scribus. > > Works fine for me as well inside Scribus. It's in the PDF that it gets > screwed up (I tried viewing the PDF in Linux on Windows 98 and on NT 5.1 > with acroread versions ranging from 5.8 to 6). The fonts are always > fully embedded in the final document btw. Yes, as above.. will chat to Franz about it 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/20040501/8e9faf11/attachment.pgp
