On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Tobias Hilbricht wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 13.12.2006, 19:02 +0000 schrieb Terence Chan: > > However, > > it would be useful to be able to use the latex fonts in a text > > frame to make minor additions in Scribus. The latex package > > comes with a large collection of fonts, many of which are supported > > by Scribus, but most of the standard latex fonts commonly used are > > tfm fonts > > Which fonts you are referring to? I have here TeXLive 2005, and the > LaTeX standard font Computer Modern as well as its derivative Latin > Modern and other fonts are available (and installed by default) as > PostScript fonts (type1, *pfb). Even very interesting but rather seldom > used fonts like the archaic series by Peter Wilson, originally only > available in MetaFont, are now available as PostScript fonts. I can use > for example the Latin Modern PostScript fonts coming with TeXLive 2005 > with Scribus. > > Yours sincerely > > Tobias Hilbricht
Not all of the type1 pfb fonts work: e.g. the Computer Modern fonts in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm as well as the cs*.pfb fonts in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/cs have spaces rendered as a hyphen-like character in a text frame. On the other hand the LM fonts in /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/public/lm work fine. This is to say nothing of the many other fonts in /usr/share/texmf/fonts, including the Adobe fonts which are available only in *.tfm format. In every one of the fonts I've tried, there is no problem with rendering the actual characters - it's the spaces that often don't work. The TeX/LaTeX installation on my machine comes from Fedora Core 5. Terence > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
