scribus-request at nashi.altmuehlnet.de wrote: >Send Scribus mailing list submissions to > scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > scribus-request at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > >You can reach the person managing the list at > scribus-owner at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Scribus digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Where are the font files? Hurry, please! (Craig Ringer) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:59:27 +0800 >From: Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> >Subject: Re: [Scribus] Where are the font files? Hurry, please! >To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >Message-ID: <1122094767.2752.12.camel at albert.localnet> >Content-Type: text/plain > >On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 12:40 -0700, Robert R. Di Giorgio wrote: > > >>I have just upgraded to 1.3.0, but I liked the fonts in 1.2.2 a lot >>better >> >> > >Neither 1.3.x or 1.2.x come with any fonts. The difference is in the way >they search for fonts on your system. 1.2.x searches your X font path - >and does things like tries to parse your X font server config file - to >find fonts. 1.3.x uses the increasingly standard (on Linux) fontconfig >library to locate them. > >If xlsfonts shows your fonts but fc-list does not, then that is most >likely your problem. You can either add the directories containing the >fonts to the Scribus font search path in the preferences ("Extra >fonts"), or you can tell fontconfig where to find them. > >Please see http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=fonts1 and >http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=fonts2 for more >information. > > > >> -- and since I used 1.2.2 for last month's edition of my church >>newsletter, I would like to keep the former set of fonts. I would also >>like to standardize Open Office with the same fonts, because I use it to >>prepare articles for the newsletter. (This is a 24-page color booklet, >>and I'm way behind for this issue!) >> >> > >I think OpenOffice.org should also be able to find the fonts with >fontconfig if you tell fontconfig where they are. > > > >>But I can't find the fonts. Are they hidden somewhere, or disguised with >>a non-obvious directory name? >> >> > >You might be able to find them by examining the output of `xset q' (look >for the section entitled "Font Path"). If you see a list of paths there, >look in those. If you see "unix/:7100" then you're using the X font >server, and need to look at /etc/X11/fs/config to see where the fonts >are. > >When you locate the fonts, add entries for them to ~/.fonts.conf , eg: > ><?xml version="1.0"?> ><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> ><fontconfig> > <dir>/home/craig/.cidfonts</dir> > <dir>/home/craig/.kdetest/share/fonts</dir> > <dir>/home/craig/.gsfonts</dir> > <dir>/home/craig/.fonts-arabic</dir> ></fontconfig> > >and run fc-cache . > > > >>StarOffice 7 also has the fonts I want, but I can't find those, either. >> >> > >spadmin might help you locate those. It should be in the same place as >the StarOffice 7 binaries. > >-- >Craig Ringer > > > > All the above was very helpful. I learned how to locate font files, and install them in fontconfig and Scribus. I copied the files over from my other computer (which has Xandros 3 and Scribus 1.2.?, but no matter what I did, Scribus 1.3 didn't show the new fonts I wanted. It turned out that they were mostly TTF fonts, which apparently Scribus 1.2 accepted but 1.3 doesn't. I weeded out the fonts I really didn't like (mostly the Asian fonts), and am trying to locate Type 1 fonts that are free and I like. :-\ Not much luck so far, but I'm still looking. At least I understand the problem. Now if I can understand some answers .... Thanks for your help. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050725/d55f5128/attachment.html
