From: "Joe Barr" 

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:59:32 -0400, Frank Haber wrote:

> Random questions from an xxNIX font ignoramus:
>
> What's the main thrust of font support in Linux these days, PS-T1, TT or
> Open Type?
>
> Anyone here use Linux for publishing?  How's the preview and rendering to
> Lino, if anyone still does it that way?
>
> Does Linux-386 have any kernel support for bitmap or vector simple fonts?
> HPGL or any vector drawing stuff? Are they supported anywhere else, if
> not, in a commonly available formatter?  TeX, SGML and troff need not
> apply.
>
> Does the GUI choice affect the above, as far as the user's concerned?
>
> What did FrameMaker for UNIX do?  Is it still sold, and on what platform?
>
> Is there a good place to learn about this?

There is a (fairly) new project for DTP on Linux called Scribus.  The 1.0
release only came out a month or two back.  It's not 100% rock stable, but
it is being used in production.  I love the ease of creating PDFs with that
baby.






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