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

[Christian Bjälevik]

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?
> 
> Regards,
>     Christoph
> 
> 

Please, use bugzilla for bugs.

Sincererly,
/Christian