scribus wants PostScript fonts, that are installed, but obviously not found or ignored

[John Levin]

On 3 May 2005, at 12:29, Christoph Bier wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I already asked this question on the user list last week, but didn't
> get an answer. So I try it here now.
>
> When I start scribus it reports a fatal error:
>
> There are no Postscript-Fonts on your System
> Exiting now
>
> Of course, there are PostScript fonts installed:
>
> dpkg -l *fonts* | grep ^ii
> ii  gsfonts        8.14+v8.11+urw Fonts for the Ghostscript
> interpreter(s)
> ii  gsfonts-x11    0.17           Make Ghostscript fonts available
> to X11
> [...]
> ii  xfonts-scalabl 6.8.2-10       scalable fonts for X
>
> Searching for answers via Google Groups I found, that
> xfonts-scalable should also be installed. They are installed as you
> can see above.
>
> I tried to start scribus by setting GS_FONTPATH:
>
> GS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/ scribus
>
> But it ends up with the same error.
>
> So, what's going wrong here and how can I fix it?

I remember this happening to me some time ago, on Fink (apt-get for Mac 
OS X). Had the same problem on SuSe. It was a problem with freetype2 - 
which is in Universe. Have you got that package installed?

For me, on Hoary/x86, Scribus starts without any problems. Checking 
against your font list, I don't have gsfonts-x11 0.17 installed - 
perhaps try uninstalling that?

Regards

John Levin

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