From #d-mentors, [...] twb> Actually the reason is that under wheezy, scribus templates assume Arial is in the path twb> And installing Liberation fonts doesn't help twb> It just pops up a thing saying "what typeface should I use instead?" which defaults to the *FIRST* font in the list, lexicographically pabs> sounds like a usability bug, is it fixed in jessie? twb> cjb says no pabs> if so options are backport the whole thing or backport a small patch to wheezy version and get it accepted by the release team twb> atm this is my shitty workaround:
# Remove references to MS fonts from Scribus templates.
gunzip /usr/share/scribus/templates/*/*.sla.gz
sed -i /usr/share/scribus/templates/*/*.sla \
-e 's/Arial Regular/Liberation Sans Regular/g' \
-e 's/Arial Black Regular/Liberation Sans Bold/g' \
-e 's/FreeSans Medium/Liberation Sans Bold/g'
gzip --fast /usr/share/scribus/templates/*/*.sla
SamB> twb: if you actually wanted Arial, the .deb probably doesn't contain the
font itself?
twb> SamB: I don't want Arial.
twb> SamB: I want scribus to believe "fc-match Arial" which says to use
Liberation Sans
pabs> I need to write a template for 'please use fontconfig for looking up font
locations'
pabs> https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts#fontconfig
[...]
pabs> hmm, includes less detail [on #742003] than you mentioned on IRC
twb> pabs: with your permission, I'll just dump this IRC transcript in an email
to that task.
pabs> sure
An affected file is /usr/share/scribus/templates/pres_backgr_4/bokeh.sla.gz
in <CHARSTYLE CNAME="Default Character Style" ...>
In the above I'm replacing FreeSans; that's in Debian, it's just fugly.
You're doing Recommends: xfonts-scalable | gsfonts-x11,
you might add the fonts-* packages that your templates use.
fonts-liberation is the obvious replacement for Arial.
I guess freemono is "fonts-freefont-ttf | fonts-freefont-otf".
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