SCRIBUS FONTS PREVIEW SOFTWARE

The settings were the same for both programs (automatically translated from LO styles by Scribus, not verified by hand) and LO's output file was 339 pages compared to 326 for Scribus. Issues discoveredĪs you can probably tell, Scribus creates more condensed output. The option was greyed out in the menus and trying to sneakily copypaste a page reference from a text frame to a table caused a segfault. It also turns out that you can not add page references to table cells, only to text frames. Websearching found several pages with info, but none of them worked. Scribus has support for tables, but they could not be used, because tables drew outlines around each cell and I could not find a way to switch that off. The table of contents had to be done by hand again. If the original had been done with master documents, this would have been simpler. The original had just one big LO file, so I had to split it up by hand for the import. The text was imported directly from LO files that held one chapter each. Eventually I converged on a layout where every chapter was its own set of linked frames. It sort of worked, but things got quite laggy quite quickly. I tried loading all 350is pages to a single linked frame sequence. Scribus also does not do long pieces of text particularly smootly. Doing big changes (like adding text to existing chapters, changing physical page size etc) can become quite tedious. A traditional 'single flow of text' is not that, so there are some things you need to plan for.įirst of all, a Scribus document should not be created until the text is almost completely finished. Scribus' strengths lie in producing output with fairly short pieces of text with precise layout requirements, especially if there are many images. Fontographer itself, in the right hands, a superb tool.īelow, a good font from a well known reliable foundry with correct meta data displayed.Every program has the things it is good for and things it's not that good for. If you acquire a font attributed to Altsys or Macromedia - use caution. Most often well known type designers embed their name or foundry name in the font. Some clones are actually fonts edited with Fontographer if the default settings are not changed, the foundry will be listed as Macromedia or Altsys.

SCRIBUS FONTS PREVIEW SOFTWARE

Does the font's foundry name Altsys or Macromedia? Macromedia sells Fontographer, a type creation/editing software which used to be sold by Altsys.

Some excellent special purpose fonts do not have this info embedded for some reason.

Does the font come from a well known foundry ? If the foundry is marked unknown use with caution and you should not be surprised if it causes troubles in Scribus.

Note, Scribus 1.3+ will automatically show missing glyphs in a font right on the canvas. This is not the case with special fonts such as symbols or other fonts.

Check the size, there is no absolute, but smaller sizes, especially with True Type fonts, can indicate missing glyphs.

pfm files have the font metrics useful for ligatures and kern pairing info.

pfb file will create the preview.afm and. Check the file dates: Type 1 fonts before 1991, can cause problems.Second is the lack of a foundry, indicating it might be a poorly made clone of a higher quality original. In more than two dozen fonts which showed with no preview, most everyone had printing/exporting issues in Scribus. First is no preview, indicating some internal problems. In the example above, there are a couple of hints for a potentially troublesome font. You can alternatively, right click and choose Open With. Then, simply hover your mouse over a single font icon for more data. Enabling this is as simple as opening konqueror, browsing to a directory of fonts and click icon view and let the previews build in the back ground. It is my first tool for assessing a font. One very useful feature in KDE 3.3+ is the kio-fonts slave which can pickup metadata about fonts and browse this data in konqueror. All through the docs, on the mailing list in IRC, everyone talks about using good fonts, How do I know ? How can I tell? Below is a simple checklist you can use. So, you have down-loaded and installed a selection of fonts.

Table of Contents Basic Fonts Tests - Part 1 How does one decide which fonts are good, bad or indifferent?

Scribus fonts preview