dear anonymous user, > Name: Servus > Email Address: Lang74 at web.de > Subject: OpenType (Kerning) Support > Message: > Hello everybody, > > an unsolved problem with this otherwise great software is that it > can't read kerning tables of OpenType-fonts. (Since the FreeType > 2-Library used in Scribus can only read old KERN-Tables, but no > GPOS-tables). > > This seems to me a rather urgent issue, since OpenType has becom THE > major font format and many fonts are not available unless in > OTF-format. Is there any solution coming up...? > > [I'm using Scribus 1.3.8 under Windows XP]
afaict, better OTF support is on its way and to be expected by the end of the year in the development version. ciao a.l.e
