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Title: Font changes on imported page
Post by: Meemaw on April 22, 2025, 09:40:17 PM
I am in a group that does a newsletter monthly. Two of us lay out the articles in Scribus and take turns assembling the articles into one document.

I'm having trouble with the files that my co-worker sends. When I import his files, the font changes. We have agreed on a font for layout (Liberation Serif 12), but when I import part of his, the sla file reverts to Liberation Sans 10.

It happens to me and not to him. We are both using Linux with Scribus 1.6.3. Is there a setting that I can change?

Thanks in advance,
:)
Title: Re: Font changes on imported page
Post by: MrB on April 22, 2025, 09:59:24 PM
Do you have the Serif font installed? Check your font substitutions in Preferences are not auto converting them.
Title: Re: Font changes on imported page
Post by: Meemaw on April 23, 2025, 12:12:19 AM
I have Lib Serif installed, as well as Lib Sans. We've both been using Lib Serif in our document for quite a while. I never substitute anything else for Lib Serif. I can open one of the documents and it shows the text in Lib Serif, but when I import it into the larger document it changes to Lib Sans.

It's very frustrating because I have to reformat that article, and I shouldn't have to. All of them are laid out in Scribus.

(and of course I have it installed, or I couldn't use it at all...)
Title: Re: Font changes on imported page
Post by: AdmFubar on April 23, 2025, 03:13:46 AM
I have a similar issue too. when reopening a document, scribus  wants to substitute another font, and prompts for what i want to sub. The actual font is in the font path(s) but it seems to ignore this. haven't figured out why yet.
Title: Re: Font changes on imported page
Post by: Meemaw on April 24, 2025, 12:34:49 AM
Hope you get it figured out!

However... I have both fonts installed, and it doesn't ask to substitute, it just DOES it. I hope they figure that out too, because having to reformat all the text in an article, when it shouldn't be necessary, is getting really frustrating.
Title: Re: Font changes on imported page
Post by: AdmFubar on April 24, 2025, 04:01:00 AM
Here is something for you to try, rename your config directory for scribus and start scribus. you may need to readjust some prefs depending if you made some changes. See if this clears the issue.
Title: Re: Font changes on imported page
Post by: a.l.e on April 24, 2025, 10:11:18 AM
Meeemaw, would it possible to share the two .sla files?

You can send a link in a private message, if you don't want them to be world readable.