On Monday 19 October 2009 10:56:06 Steven Dayton wrote: > The version of Fontmatrix that you can get to easily from the Ubuntu > Add/Install utitility is an older version that just dosen't work. I never > could get it to work. The newer version (I believe it is 0.60 or something > like that) does work however. It is a bit clunky but at least it works. You > have to install it using the command line in the Termnial. There are some > instructions on how to do it that are not to difficult to follow (I had to > do it a couple of times before I got it right). > > I also tried Fonty Python but I just couldn't figure out how to get it to > work so I got rid of it. > > It is encouraging to hear someone say Scribus works like a charm on > OpenSUSE because that is what I am go to try next. I like Linux but must > admit that there is a big learning curve that goes with it and my patience > has been tried so often that I'm starting to loose count. I'm not ready to > give up on it yet though. > > StevenD > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:19, Alexandre Prokoudine < > > alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 4:12 PM, dwain wrote: > > > to my understanding, fonty python is only for ttf fonts. > > > > This really isn't so. It works with OTF, Type1 and TTC since 0.3.0, > > that is -- since January 2008. > > > > Alexandre
I have success with nightly downloads of Scribus 1.3.5 (aka 1.3.6) on my Slackware system. I did not have to add on anything like fontmatrix. When I boot, a font configuration program runs automatically (forget the name.) Slackware is what we call in programming a lower level language. It does less for you automatically than e.g. Ubuntu. It lacks the convenience features like apt-get But it uses the standard kernel and the original Qt4 (Slackware 13.) If I were to install fontmatrix I would download the latest tarball, unpack, ./configure, make, make install. I would not be dependent on the Jaunty depository because there is no exact equivalent in Slackware. A site called SlackBuild is the closest equivalent. I do also have an Xubuntu (Ubuntu plus XFCE) partition and a Win XP partition. But I live in Slackware. I went through many gyrations to install Inkscape 47 pre4 on Slackware. Installing Inkscape 47 pre0 on Xubuntu was much easier. But I now have a later version running on Slack. Compared to Ubuntu Slack is more learning and more work but gives one greater ultimate control. I prefer it. Others may not. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
