Re: [Fink-beginners] Scribus and EPS files

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

John Rodriguez wrote:

> I've just installed Scribus 1.1.1 on my OS 10.2.8 Mac.  I have the NOVA 
> Art Explosion image library and the images are stored as EPS files.  For 
> some reason these files will not display inside Scribus.  

This can have several different reasons, the most likely being PATH 
problems. How do you start scribus? From the command line in 
Terminal.app or from the command line in an xterm or from the 
Applications menu in X11? If you use the second or third of these 
methods, you have to make sure that your fink environment is set up 
before you start scribus.

In the X11 Applications menu, don't use "/sw/bin/scribus" as a command 
line, use ". /sw/bin/init.sh && scribus". See also Fink FAQ#8.4.

> I also installed the applesystemfont package, but my favorite font. 
> Palatino, is not listed when I select fonts using Scribus.  Has anyone 
> used Palatino with X11?

Palatino is a Mac OS (not OSX) system font, and it is not installed by 
the applesystemfonts package. You can try to look what the 
applesystemfonts package is doing (running fondu and then installing 
using xfontpath) and do the same for the Palatino font from the MacOS9 
System Folder. I gave it a short try and was not successful: The 
Palatino.ttf etc were created and Palatino could be used in other X11 
applications, but scribus did not want to use it. I don't know why.

-- 
Martin