Am Dienstag, 15. Juni 2010 02:27:33 schrieb Barry McKenna: > with W2k/sp4: > > My apologies if this has been asked and answered before, but > I have finally realized that subscribing to the digest > defeats the convenience of efficient searching. > > I have searched the wiki, the documentation and the manual > that I purchased, and I can find no help for this issue: > > I'm using OpenOffice for the text that I write or format and > the Get Text item to load that to Scribus. I would like to > be able to use the additional fonts installed with Scribus > in my OO files (so I can become more familiar with the > different fonts you so graciously provide me). > > I cannot find a way to install them in OO: the help file at > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Font-FAQ tells me > to create a local.conf file in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf which > it criptically say you can "usually find." Not only does the > file not exist but the directory doesn't either.
This directory doesn't exist on Windows, and the information is (was?) only relevant for Unix-like systems. > I have > fonts.conf files for Gimp and Inkscape and Ghostscript but > not for OO - that I can find searching the complete system. > > So, I'd be really grateful if I can get advice on how to use > the Scribus installed true types in my OO. > > Should I just install them with the Windows font installer? > Would that redundancy break anything in Scribus (1.3.6, > currently)? As far as I know, Scribus installs the fonts in the Windows font directory, so they should be available in other programs, too. HTH Christoph
