Martin Costabel wrote: > Craig Bradney wrote: > >>> Concerning the Scribus application, here is first the good news: It >>> seems that with this version of 1.3cvs, the colors are displayed >>> correctly! There is also no problem with finding fonts. If one lists >>> the >>> fonts directories in ~/.scribus/scribusfont13.rc, at least the >>> postscript fonts that can be used in X11 are seen also. >> >> >> Assuming fontconfig works on OSX this should cover you there, esp >> since we will remove the X font finding soon enough. > > > Freetype has some obscure configure flag, too, that is supposed to > help with ancient Mac fonts, but I have no experience with this. Right > now, scribus-aqua sees the Mac resource fork fonts after they are > transformed into ttf using fondu. Fink has the applesystemfonts > package that does this transformation for all available fonts. It is > made for use with X11, but the resulting font directory can be used by > scribus-aqua without X11.
It should be noted that the guys working the OO.o Mac port (www.NeoOffice.org) have fondu running through the /Library/Fonts , /System/Library/Fonts and ~/Library/Fonts directories during install. It may be desirable to speak with them with regards the fonts issues since it seems they have already tamed the beast to a state useable - at least - for their purposes. -- __ Faster than a speeding slug! I'm Paraplegic Racehorse.
