#Scribus fonts preview professional#
#Scribus fonts preview windows#

We have a few people skilled in UI and UX (professional graphic designers that do use scribus in their daily work and one UX person) that already have made proposals for scribus. (i guess that the ID solution works well in ID, but i have the feeling that the scribus UI is still too busy to add even more visual goodies.) I can live with the ID solution, but the others one are more disturbing than useful to me. I still believe that discovering fonts (and needing a preview) is a different task (done at a different time in the workflow) than applying a font. Personally, i tend to stick to my opinion: a plain font picker for the PP and a fancy one (with options?) for the fonts browser. I want to see the preview in the drop downs everywhere where it's a font selection. In story text editor, Search&Replace and Item Tools, the font list renders with font styles name to get the right font & style.Now it is possible just type font name in font combo box and set it without the need to choose the font from the droplist.

#Scribus fonts preview professional#

This feature will help a lot of scribus users especially the new users using Story text editor.įor professional users, I propose the following: This is not an excuse to not implement it.

Other applications rarely get it right anyway. What to do with fonts that lie about languages they support (reading the cmap table to find the actual coverage is expensive)? However, this is not required because there are a few fonts that support more than 4 languages and meant to be use in typesetting such as DejaVu Sans & FreeSans. It will show all Writing system supported by the font. If a font has Latin and Arabic, which to show? Cyrillic and Arabic? Greek and Armenian? Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, Syriac, …?

(but with a text filter for easily fast selection of the font i'm looking for)

but i think i prefer the fonts list to be as unimpressive as it currently is.

possibly rename the 'font preview' in 'fonts browser' to better match its use (people do not want to preview the fonts, they want to browse fonts :-)īeing able to easily browse and preview fonts is something i'd really want to have in scribus.

(we should generally have buttons to manage resources next to the places where they can be selected)

add a preview button (that starts the 'font preview') to the places where one can pick a font (the alternative way of browsing fonts should be very visible).

possibly with horizontal and vertical layout)

by making the 'font preview' really non-modal (it should be a 'palette' like all the others one.

making the 'big' demo text facultative (the default being to preview the font in the list itself or by applying it to the selected frame, if any).

with a button that turns on / off the preview of the font in the fonts list itself.

allow the preview of the font in the list, as you want in the PP / styles manager.

I would prefer the feature to go into 'extras > font preview' The scribus UI is generally speaking rather distracting, and having the fonts preview in the PP would imo be one more graphic element on the screen. Scribus is aimed at professional users (by the word of the team.), people who are supposed to know how the name of a font relates to its visual appearance. (Except the fonts being cached from the new location.I don't know, for many people browsing fonts for inspiration or picking a specific font to be used seem to be two different tasks.

Moving fonts from a user-specific to system-wide location does nothing.

Both libotf and libotf-bin are installed.

Refreshing the font cache, including with sudo privileges (as was suggested on the Mint forums) does nothing.

#Scribus fonts preview windows#

Besides, I'm not using Windows and the FAQs say this was only a problem with very ancient versions, as in this other thread.

It's not the same as this because (Open/)LibreOffice doesn't find them, either.

If you have a minute, I'd be grateful if you could test it for yourself. s_4301.zipįor example, Fira Sans Two, Four and Eight are among those not showing up. Where 18 of 35 and 2 of 8 are found, respectively. home/chris/.fonts/KlinicSlab_Personal_License: caching, new cache contents: 8 fonts, 0 dirs Code: Select all /home/chris/.fonts/Fira_otf: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs