On 06/14/2010 08:27 PM, Barry McKenna wrote: > 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. 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)?
This is a matter of OO finding the fonts, not Scribus sending fonts to it, so it's a matter of the system (in your case, Windows, I guess) finding these extra fonts. So yes, use Windows to locate these fonts, and they should be included. Greg
