From: Gregory Pittman <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 8:07 PM To: Scribus User Mailing List Subject: Re: [scribus] Font substitution
On 02/18/2017 07:45 PM, William Bader wrote: > From: Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> > Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 4:54 PM > To: Scribus User Mailing List > Subject: Re: [scribus] Font substitution > > On 02/18/2017 03:29 PM, Jo Evans wrote: >> Scribus 1.4.6 on Windows 10 >> >> I have some documents made previously using Vijaya font (a free TTF) both >> regular and bold. But now when I open the documents, although the regular >> text is correctly displayed, it substitutes Arial for the Vijaya bold text. >> >> When I look in Preferences... Fonts the table entry for Vijaya Bold shows >> the substitution but ther seems no way of editing the table to remove the >> substitution. >> >> I have tried reinstalling Vijaya into Windows but this has had no effect. > > I'm having the same problem with DejaVu fonts -- Scribus won't recognize > them, and substitutes in old files. > > Greg > > --- > > I think that Scribus uses fontconfig > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig/ to locate the installed > fonts. The fonts might have to be installed with a method that fontconfig > supports. This doesn't make any sense to me. DejaVu fonts have always worked fine. I can't find anything in the link to connect fontconfig to some operation to check or evaluate fonts. LibreOffice has no problem with DejaVu. Greg --- LibreOffice might use another method of getting fonts. In any case, you can check the fonts available to fontconfig with the fc-list command https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/font_configuration and you can ask fontconfig what provides or substitutes for a given font with the fc-match command. https://linux.die.net/man/1/fc-match -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20170219/d87c09b7/attachment.html>
