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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0002471ScribusFontspublic2016-04-04 16:45
Reporterrgpublic Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status acknowledgedResolutionopen 
PlatformLinuxOSSuSEOS Version9.3
Product Version1.3.1cvs 
Summary0002471: Default font/Difficult to find embedded fonts
DescriptionThis is perhaps a meta-bug but it is difficult for me to divide it
in further sub-bugs.
After installing Scribus, the default font has been set to
"Albany Bold". This is, I suppose, because it is the first font
in the alphabet. Not an optimal solution IMHO. If "Helvetica" is
installed on the system (or some other "common" font) this should
be the default font. Admittedly without futher looking around the
properties I started creating my document. Now the text-boxes have
the font "Albany Bold" selected in the text properties drop-down-list.
Nevertheless the font is not "Albany Bold" because I selected different
fonts for various selections inside the text box. If this happens the
font drop-down should be disabled or rather show "various fonts" instead
of some font that in fact never appears anywhere. Even worse, this
font is asked for when reopening the file on a different computer and
it's embedded in PDF output. It's now quite difficult to find where
the font is used. A good solution IMO: Ability to double-click on a
font in "Extras->Fonts-Preview" would jump to (i.e. select) the first
text-box that uses this font.



Tagsfont selection, fonts
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avox

2005-10-10 22:55

administrator   ~0007019

A) You can select the default font for textframes in Preferences -> Tools ->Text tool

B) I'm with you that a font should not be embedded into PS/PDF if it's only used for whitespace.

Kunda

2016-04-04 16:45

updater   ~0039786

needs to be linked to other open bugs that are related

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2005-08-23 11:57 rgpublic New Issue
2005-10-10 22:55 avox Note Added: 0007019
2005-10-10 22:55 avox Status new => acknowledged
2016-04-04 16:45 Kunda Tag Attached: font selection
2016-04-04 16:45 Kunda Tag Attached: fonts
2016-04-04 16:45 Kunda Note Added: 0039786