On Monday 06 June 2005 22:35, Maciej Hanski wrote: Following up myself: > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 22:22:49 +0200 > > PLinnell <mrdocs at scribus.info> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > These notes are part of an addtion I am making to the 1.2.2 docs. > > <snip> > > > > It is a mixed bag with "cyrrilized" fonts based on the URW++ > > originals. > > > > There have been many different releases merged into the gs-fonts > > collection and I also understand the motivation of distros for > > using them. Good freely available Cyrillic fonts are not wide > > spread. Bugs in Fontforge have caused issues with some of the > > releases, which required re-issuing the fonts a few times. > >
You can look at bugs.ghostscript.com for specific issues too. > > I know for example, one of the URW++ fonts shipped with Suse 9.x > > gets dropped on loading in 1.3 with the sanity checks being done > > by Scribus. Yes, this was duly reported to Suse, as well. > > > > Scribus by design (to prevent crashes) and by capability (it does > > things with fonts few free apps can do). Scribus will be by > > necessity far fussier about fonts than most other apps. > > > > I can recommend trying the artifex release of the URW fonts in > > true type form. Plus there are additional faces which are nicely > > done like Classico and Coronet. > > I meant to add that there are extensive notes on fonts in the docs, plus my recommendations here: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=setup&page=fonts2 Links for downloads of good fonts: http://www.scribus.org.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=viewlink&cid=3 > > Peter > > Thank you very much, Peter, that's exactly the answer I've needed > :) > > Maciej > > Peter
