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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0015042 | Scribus | Text Frames / Story Editor | public | 2017-11-19 21:43 | 2017-11-20 11:10 |
Reporter | u ltd. | Assigned To | jghali | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
Platform | amd64 | OS | alike debian | OS Version | 9 |
Product Version | 1.5.3 | ||||
Summary | 0015042: Fonts installed but not available | ||||
Description | On my system there's the DejaVu font and the "arphic" package installed. The paths are set correctly, yet Scribus doesn't show these fonts. (See screenshot) It would be nice to get a message about the not-loading and the reason for it at least. | ||||
Additional Information | Happens also on Scribus 1.4.6. I did personally copy-over some >UTF-16 chars into a working font and it worked there. -> That's not the issue. I didn't make a complete list/comparison of (installed != available) fonts. | ||||
Tags | CJK, fonts | ||||
Patch | No | ||||
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This is a bug caused by some FreeType versions which fail when loading some glyphs outlines and make us consider some fonts as broken. At least FreeType 2.6.0 to 2.6.3 are affected. FreeType 2.6.5 was fixed. Unfortunately Debian 9 has FreeType 2.6.3. If you upgrade FreeType to >= 2.6.5, you will have to clear scribus font cache. |
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Thank you - that worked. Just for information of the GNU/Linux oriented public: - I upgraded FreeType (you are right, old version was 2.6.3 in debian package manager) - For scribus 1.4.6 I had to rm ~/.scribus/checkfonts.xml - For scribus 1.5.3 I had to rm ~/.config/scribus/checkfonts150.xml |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2017-11-19 21:43 | u ltd. | New Issue | |
2017-11-19 21:43 | u ltd. | File Added: Scribus--Not_all_fonts.png | |
2017-11-19 21:43 | u ltd. | Tag Attached: CJK | |
2017-11-19 21:43 | u ltd. | Tag Attached: fonts | |
2017-11-20 00:11 | jghali | Assigned To | => jghali |
2017-11-20 00:11 | jghali | Status | new => resolved |
2017-11-20 00:11 | jghali | Resolution | open => no change required |
2017-11-20 00:11 | jghali | Note Added: 0044635 | |
2017-11-20 00:11 | jghali | Status | resolved => closed |
2017-11-20 10:12 | u ltd. | Status | closed => feedback |
2017-11-20 10:12 | u ltd. | Resolution | no change required => reopened |
2017-11-20 10:12 | u ltd. | Note Added: 0044639 | |
2017-11-20 11:10 | jghali | Status | feedback => resolved |
2017-11-20 11:10 | jghali | Resolution | reopened => no change required |
2017-11-20 11:10 | jghali | Status | resolved => closed |
2025-04-27 19:16 | cbradney | Category | Story Editor / Text Frames => Text Frames / Story Editor |