I have a W7 32bit machine. On 2/8, I installed Scribus 1.4.0 and upon completion of the installation, a readme document opened and said I needed to install Ghostscript before I installed Scribus.
Reading Scribus on-line documentation I came to the conclusion that I could get away with installing Ghostscript without uninstalling Scribus if I made sure the Scribus File > Preferences > External Tools referenced the executable file in Ghostscript. I installed Ghostscript 9.05. I then went to the File > Preferences > External Tools and found that the Ghostscript executable gswin32c.exe (together with its correct folder path) was already listed as the executable for the PostScript Interpreter. I am hoping that is the link that will allow Scribus to run correctly.
Did I do the correct steps to have a successful install of Scribus/Ghostscript?
I have an .sla file that was created on a Windows XP machine using Scribus 1.3.3.x. I copied the file to my W7 32bit machine and tried to open it with the newly installed Scribus application. An error message was produced that said there are 2 missing fonts. The missing fonts are
Harrington Regular
Palace Script MT Italic
Scribus suggested a Times New Roman font substitution to allow the file to open. My experience is that Times New Roman is not a good substitution and I declined this suggestion.
Is there some universal way to expand my font library to include these missing fonts?
In some Scribus install documentation, I saw this sentence, “When you select the “Extra Fonts” Option in the installer, this will install two sets of high-quality, freely distributable fonts.” I don't recall an “Extra Fonts” option while installing.
Is there some action I need to take to get the “Extra Fonts”?
Thanks for any help you can give.