On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 17:01:43 -0400 John Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> Scribus 1.4.6 and other Scribuses tend to default > to the first available font in alphabetic order. > In my case this is aGaramond italic. I can > override this in the Style editor, but is there > a way to define my default font globally, i.e. > always there when I fire up a new session? > > And a related question: how do I eliminate the > many unneeded fonts and have that deletion last > through multiple recompiles? All those Middle > Eastern and Indian etc. fonts are of interest to > some users but I work exclusively in English. I > am thinking of a solution where Scribus looks in > in a directory other than /usr/safe/fonts. > Scrolling through hundreds of fonts over and over > when is no fun. > Sometimes we make mistakes, like install Docbook, and end up getting 2000+ unwanted fonts being recognized by Scribus. After you have unticked the first hundred and realize that you have another two hours to go, you ask, is there a better way? SED to the rescue! Go to your .scribus directory and run; sed 's/<Font\ Use="1"/<Font\ Use="0"/'scribus150.rc > new_rc_file and then (after inspection of new_rc_file) move the new_rc_file to scribus150.rc Now you problem has been changed to going through fonts and selecting maybe the 20 or 30 you want to use. HTH Owen
