Le samedi 28 avril 2007 ? 16:12:09, vous ?criviez : >> monroy-lopez wrote >>> Dear list, >>> I'm on the final stages of a small 4-page A3 publication. The design >>> was done with Scribus on Gentoo. >>> >>> The printing will be done off a PDF document. I was thinking of >>> embedding the fonts in the PDF in order to prevent problems at the >>> printer. Is this something that you would recommend? >>> >>> The fonts that the document contains are: DejaVu Sans and Nimbus >>> Mono. >> Definitly yes, embedding the fonts is always recommended if you are >> going to print your documents at a professional printer. >> >> Most print shops do not only recommend this, they are insisting having >> embedded fonts.
j> Another option is, if you encounter problems with the fonts or some j> of them, j> to let scribus convert them to paths. Some non-pro fonts may have j> problems with j> high resolution postscript devices. But this is only the option for j> (if). j> Jon Do you mean by path the outline-option? I observed with the Gentium-Font from www.sil.org that Scribus does NOT propose the embedd fonction, but ONLY the outline function! Is there any reason why it can't be embedded? It's a BIG font... I think 400kb. Martin
