Is it possible to remove a font (eg Vijaya Bold) from the Scribus/Preferences/Fonts/ listing. The table does not appear to be editable.
On 19 February 2017 at 20:33, Jo Evans <jo.hose.evans at gmail.com> wrote: > 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/wi >> ki/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/2017 >> 0219/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/20170221/4759071b/attachment.html>
