I don't quite know if this is the right place to ask, or for that matter what I want to ask, so I'll try and hopefully someone will understand :-[
I am creating a newsletter which will be exported to pdf for printing at a 'commerical' printers. That bit is fine (I think). But the pdf is BIG - 12Mb. This incldues lots of images, and embeded fonts. Adjusting the image resolutions doesn't seem to affect the file size that much so I guess it is mostly fonts because not embeding the fonts makes a huge difference. I fully understand that for the print copy I want the fonts embeded to ensure acuracy of reproduction. However, in windows (uh!) when I used to print to a pdf printer I didn't usually bother embedding fonts for the 'electronic version' the kind of thing you'd put on a web site. Afterall we don't want people having to download 12Mb to read a few pages. With windows that wasn't a major problem I used a non-standard sans font but it seemed to substitute arial instead, which worked fine (the odd character was omitted / wrongly printed but otherwise ok.) When I do this with scribus and linux acrobat reader (7) I get a wirey font instead... not yet viewed it on windows. I didn't expect this because the font is on the machine so why doesn't Acrobat use it, and I expected font substitution to kick in... Is there some way of getting the pdf to have a substitute font if the specified one isn't available? Calum
