> Did you embed the fonts in the document? pdffonts will tell that all fonts are embedded. More likely it's triggering some bug or unimplemented feature in pdf 1.4 interpretation, but it happens in two independent programs. The scribus people ought to take this into account and use workarounds. Or Christopher's bleeding edge scribus is a bit too bleedy... ;)
Btw are there any more independent pdf interpreters besides gs and xpdf? Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
