On 03/14/2010 04:57 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > A few months ago I created a 132 page book in Scribus 1.3.5.1 on Jaunty > x86_64. Now I need to make a few revisions. But in the meantime I went > distro shopping and ended up with Fedora 11 x86_64 (Gnome). In the > process I have apparently lost the font "Arial," although I do have MS > Arial Unicode installed. I probably still have the old Arial font > because I installed Fedora on a brand new hard disk; the old Jaunty > hard disk is on the shelf. But it would be a pain to retrieve it > because the computer is a laptop. I'd have to shutdown, swap disks, > boot to Jaunty, put the font on a USB stick, shutdown, swap disks, > reboot to Fedora, install the font. > > Now, I don't recall ever using Arial-anything in this document. When I > open the document with 1.3.5.1 on Fedora I get a warning message that > the font is not installed. Apparently the font exists in the document > somewhere, but I'll bet it was just a space somewhere, or defined in a > style that was not actually used or something. I'd like to find > wherever the font Arial exists in the document. If it's trivial I'll > just change it to something else. If it's significant enough to keep > it, then I'll switch to MS Arial Unicode. I just need to be sure the > font change doesn't cause text reflow to mess up the layout. > > I tried using Outline to locate the font, but it didn't work as I > expected. That is, I entered "Arial" as a filter, but then none of the > pages had a triangle next to them. If I remove the filter, then all > pages have a triangle so I can see all the elements on that page. > Apparently Outline thinks no pages have an element containing Arial. > > I should add that using Find is not a good option. The document > contains at least a hundred different stories. Even if I get lucky and > find it in the very first story that I checked, I still wouldn't know if > it also existed in the other stories. > > I also tried Preflight Verifier, but it just reports no problems. (On > opening the document I used the warning message dialog box to switch > the Arial font to MS Arial Unicode.) > > Collect for Output also doesn't solve the problem. That is, it will > collect the font, but it won't tell me where it was used. > > Have I missed some obvious way to find all instances of where a font is > used in the entire document?
Personally, I would scan the file with a text editor looking for instances of the word. It may have gotten assigned as a default font somewhere even though it was not actually used in a real sense. Greg
