Hi, I have been experimenting with Scribus lately and have a big problem selecting fonts. I went through the mailing list archives and this was a problem back in 2003 that supposedly would be fixed soon, so I was wondering what the plans for this really were.
I think the problem is really a bug in the underlying Qt pop-up list library which doesn't provide automatic scrolling for large lists, but I think only being allowed to use the standard font dialog in one place in the UI isn't a good choice. If you wanted to compromise, there might either be a preference for using the pop-up or the font dialog or you might have a [Choose Font...] button next to the pop-up which would show the standard font dialog. My current problem relates to a large number of fonts installed on my Linux machine and trying to use Scribus at 1024x768 resolution. As far as I can tell, unless I go in and remove certain fonts from being available to Scribus, there's no other way I can select fonts after the first 4 columns in the list. I've even tried messing with the font size selection in the preferences, but that only works in certain parts of the UI. Any ideas for the now or information as to when this might be addressed would be very useful. Otherwise, I'm enjoying trying out Scribus (1.3.2-0.2.fc4.rf RPM package on Fedora Core 4). Thanks in advance, ast -- Andrew S. Townley <ast at atownley.org> http://atownley.org
