Actually, I've been finding that some fonts don't embed worth beans. Whether that's a Scribus issue, or freetype, I don't know.
Somewhat related to this, there are two "embed" options. My last newsletter became enormous with the regular embed option, and wouldn't print. I selected the "subset" option (sorry, I'm rushing to work, so I can't fire up Scribus for the exact name) and the size came right back down to a reasonable size, and would print. (I didn't have this issue with previous newsletters.) The font embedding problem was the same, regardless of the embed option. Rainer Heilke Craig Bradney wrote: >Hi Walt, > > > >>in an effort to use scribus to print color flyers we came about >>two problems with Scribus-generated .pdf files: >> >>firstly, when the pdf-file is inspected with Acrobat-Reader >>Professional (Version 6.02 Windows), Acrobat seems to be unable to >>display the fontnames for text in the pdf-file (which it shows when >>pdf-files generated with other programs are inspected). >> >> > >This sounds like you used subsetting, which in Scribus, at this point also >converts to outlines. Otherwise, there will be font names in the PDFs. >However, read below... > > > >>secondly, when you try to select text from a .pdf file, the text is >>utterly garbled and words are split randomly. I surmise that tiny >>spaces may be used for microspacing/kerning within words, which at the >>same time makes the text select tool pretty much useless in >>conjunction with Scribus-generated pdf's. >> >> > >If the text is utterly garbled to view, then you have not embedded the fonts >at all. When exporting, please go to the fonts tab and click Embed All Fonts. > >If the text has been converted to outlines due to subsetting, then you may >indeed have selection issues. > > > >>Any thought on why this is so, and whether there are plans to fix this >>would be appreciated. >> >> > >As above. > > > >>Scribus is great, however when you have to hand files to other >>printing people that happen to use Acrobat to inspect incoming files, >>especially the first problem leads to a cascade of requests and hence >>problems. >> >>If somebody is willing/able to tackle this, I'd be happy to test. >> >> > >We test Scribus PDFs with Acrobat Pro and some other tools like Enfocus >Pitstop to guarantee Scribus PDFs are 100% compliant. If you find any issues >and can give us a Pitstop report (for example), or even just a link to a >sample PDF that we can download, we will test it and make sure its 100% PDF >compliant. > >regards >Craig > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Scribus mailing list >Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > >
