On Feb 5, 2007, at 2:39 AM, Archimedes Arevalo wrote: > On Monday 05 February 2007 16:29:16 Owen wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 15:57:17 +0800 >> >> Archimedes Arevalo <archimedes.arevalo at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am doing layouts and PDF outputs for a Linux distro (PCLInuxOS, >>> sorry >>> for the plug) magazine. We recently had a new release, and bundled >>> with >>> this was 1.3.3.7. Much as I am pleased to be using Scribus, I cannot >>> seem to tweak the settings to get good PDFs. Apart from the usual >>> tolerable "strange" behaviors", the layout process, etc. are in good >>> order but when it comes to opening the PDF file, the pages are >>> unreadable. Imagine a book left out in the rain, and the ink of the >>> pages are all smudged. I am at a lost on where else to look. >>> >>> I've attached at small clipping for your inspection. >> >> What font were you using? Was it embedded in the PDF? >> >> >> Owen > > Yes, they were. As a matter of fact, I tried different obvious ways to > rectify > our problem but in order for us to get that magazine release on time, > I had > to run a remastered LiveCD and use 1.3.3.4 and the text were OK. > > The typefaces we used were a mixture of GPLed TTFs and Postscript Type > 1s. > > As it is, the problem remains and we are hopeful that the Scribus > community > may have some answers and/or solutions for us.
It almost looks as if the fonts' strokes were turned on instead of being turned off as normal. ________________________________________________________________________ _________________________ http://www.lulu.com/billsey -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1608 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20070205/3eb8d050/attachment.bin
