> I am not certain that this is the exact same problem, but one that has > always annoyed me: > > Being rather lazy, if I am creating a new document, I will often open > an old existing one that is rather similar to the one I want to > create.? I guess that when I first started to use Scribus, I had the > font "Arab" installed, and it was selected as the default.? I no > longer have it on my system, so whenever I open older existing > documents (or newer ones based upon the old ones), it starts out by > saying that it wants to substitute "Arab" with something else (I tend > to use Arial). > > Now, this is a minor nuisance, and I thought, "Arab must still exist > somewhere in the document, but where is it?" > > Following one of the suggestions posted in this thread, I opened the > .sla file with a text editor. The only place in the file where "Arab" > occurs is near the first line after "DFONT". I changed that instance > to Arial then saved the file. Now when I open the document I no longer > have to go through that substitution step. > > I thought this might be helpful for anyone else who has gone through > this process.
You can set the default font like this. 1. Start Scribus without making a new docoment 2. File->Preferences->Tools 3. Set the default font Now when you create a new document, DFONT will be the font you set above, and will stay that way forever and a day unless you change it. Owen
