On Tuesday 02 August 2005 20:01, Calum Polwart wrote: > 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
Hints here: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=pdfexport3 Peter
