I don't think this last posting is any use to me because I am running Windows 10 not Linux.
On 19 February 2017 at 16:14, William Bader <williambader at hotmail.com> wrote: > From: Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> > > 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> > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20170219/43ef99f1/attachment.html>
