On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 13:26, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote: > On 09 Mar 2003 12:06:39 -0500 > > > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 18:01, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote: > > > Hi Franz, > > > > > > I seem to have stumbled across a font issue in the latest scribus > > > version: > > > > > > - when selecting text and setting the font as "Arial medium" and the > > > style "italic", scribus seems to generate pdf incompatible with > > > acrobat reader (either 4.0 or 5.0 version). Using "arial medium > > > italic" fixes this. xpdf and ghostscript work just fine all the time, > > > but since my printshop only has windows ... > > > > > > - using the font "Century Schoolbool L Medium Italic" also seems to > > > generate incompatible pdf. This font was used successfully in older > > > versions of scribus. > > > > > > I hope this is enough to work on ... > > > > > > greetz, > > > > > > Franky > > > > I missed this earlier. > > > > Which distro do you have? > > > > You might find some hints in > > http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/redhat80.html > > > > Although, this is mostly about redhat 8.0, Mandrake 9.x users might > > find this useful - and - if it is or is not - please post to the list. > > I work on redhat 8.0, but have been using scribus quite some time for now, > I've found quite some bugs that Franz was very willing to fix each time :) > These are new bugs according to me, I don't have any issue under redhat > itself but acrobat under windows (sorry, I forgot to mention I tested > acrobat reader under windows) is complaining with "missing fonts" in each > of the above mentioned cases. The scribus generated pdf was for pdf > version 5 (not pdf/x-3, since I don't have color management configured > correctly yet ...)
I tested the same thing: - when selecting text and setting the font as "Arial medium" and the > > > style "italic", scribus seems to generate pdf incompatible with > > > acrobat reader (either 4.0 or 5.0 version). Using "arial medium > > > italic" fixes this. xpdf and ghostscript work just fine all the time, > > > but since my printshop only has windows ... Same results with Acro (full version 5.0.5) and Reader 5.1 > > - using the font "Century Schoolbool L Medium Italic" also seems to > > > generate incompatible pdf. This font was used successfully in older > > > versions of scribus. Works for me perfectly. Was this a clean install or upgrade ? Caveat, I am using 0.9.8pre and compiled with qt 3.1.1. Can you send me a sample scd.gz to look at? Hope that helps, Peter ________________________________________________________________________
