Thank you a.l.e, I was again off desk most of today. I will check this tomorrow in the office. If Debian and Ubuntu have got freetype, I guess OpenSuse will have it too...
And thank you friendly person who has fixed this mail-list. Martin On 17.09.2017 09:04, ale rimoldi wrote: > > > >> - Got error message about unavailable font (three different cuts of >> DejaVu), so we opted to replace by the freshly installed versions of >> DejaVu and clicked for the make-permanent option. This did not work. >> The document-setup font list does mention the replacements, but they >> are not done, document shows Charis! Also Scribus had proposed SIL >> Charis for replacing DejaVu Sans and now the available fonts list >> looks rather sick, listing DejaVu as belonging to the Charis SIL >> family. There is something quite wrong here. >> Every time we open the document again, we get the same error >> about needing to replace those fonts, even when we did already and >> had ticked "make permanent". >> I remember reading something on this list about other users >> having issues with certain fonts. So maybe the initial message should >> not read "replace unavailable fonts ..." but something like "Scribus >> now hates DejaVu; do not replace it but say goodbye to any text-frame >> which is concerned". > > that's a freetype issue > > As of January 2017, Debian testing and Ubuntu 16.04/16.10 was > distributing a version of the freetype library (2.6.3) that is affected > by a bug that prevents Scribus from loading outlines of some glyphs > with the DejaVu font (and others). > > Freetype 2.6.5 contains a fix for this issue. The fix might already be > in the 2.6.4 version. > > Debian testing now has 2.8.0, which does not contain bug affecting the > way DejaVu is seen by Scribus. Scribus will not automatically recognize > again DejaVu, you first have to manually force Scribus to re-create the > font cache by > > - quitting Scribus, > - removing (or, better renaming) the > ~/.config/scribus/checkfonts150.xml file > - starting scribus > > so, it's not scribus hating dej?vu... > just wait for freetype being updated (or update freetype) > > > ciao > a.l.e > > ___ > 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 > -- ZASKE Martin responsable G?G? BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin tel G?G? 66.66.11.11 tel pers 97.44.62.95
