How to ad Chinese fonts to Scribus?

[Fox]

@hansioux

my scribus using Zhuyin fonts.

I didn’t do anything special actually, I turn it on, and my system fonts are already in there. I am running Ubuntu.

I place all my fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/

and made sure I ran
sudo fc-cache -fv

after I put new fonts in there.

I think the biggest problem with scribus is that it doesn’t use system font cache, which means it will only use the glyphs available in the font you’ve selected. For example, when you select say “Arial” for some CJK characters in other Linux tools, the font cache will notice this font doesn’t have glyphs for these characters, and display them in a font that has them.

Some supplementary fonts depend on this feature, so they only have a very small subset of fonts to go with the main font. But in Scribus, it will just show empty boxes, because it doesn’t seem to be smart enough. It also doesn’t support CJK Unicode beyond the B extension.

Thanks a lot hansioux. It’s all sounds pretty technical but hopefully I can work it out.