On Tuesday 29 April 2008 04:17:22 pm Gregory Pittman wrote: > John Culleton wrote: > > I use Scribus 1.3.3.11. > > > > I have searched the manual and the wiki. I want to make a > > clickable URL link in my Scribus document. I go to the box marked > > "Insert PDF Annotations" and click on "Link" which has the the > > footprint icon on it. When I drag this into a box on the > > document and go into the story editor I change the default font > > to a Truetype and type in the text. It saves just fine. But at > > export time I get a "red" prepress error saying I am using a > > non-Truetype font. And if I ignore that the link doesn't appear > > on the exported pdf. > > > > Hints? > > Click the toolbar PDF icon, choose link. Make a frame for your > link. Right click for context menu, select PDF Options > Annotation > Properties This brings up a dialog, in which you need to understand > the terminology. > > Link: this is simply a link to somewhere else in your current PDF > document, identified by page and location on the page > External Link: this will load another PDF document into your reader > Web Link: this will be where you can put in a URL for the internet > to link to. This will typically work with an embedded Adobe Reader > in your browser, but can work with Adobe Reader and your browser if > your computer is configured to do that. > > None of this has anything to do with text you enter in Story > Editor. Typically, even if you use a TrueType font you will see > nothing in this link frame in Adobe Reader -- you will probably > need to overlay this link frame on some visible object in order to > see where it is, though you will see a tooltip when your cursor is > positioned over it. > > Greg
Thanks for the above guidance. Unfortunately the problem persists. I get the same error message as soon as I create the link. The default font on my system is Bitstream Charter Italic. I need to change that to something TTF and try again. Where do I set that default font? Scribus 1.3.3.11 on Slackware Linux 12. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
