On Monday 15 June 2009 08:33:50 pm John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:11:32 +0000 > > Hirwen HARENDAL <harendalh at hotmail.com> dijo: > > > From: johnxj at comcast.net > > > > > > I'm sorry, I did not make something clear. The fonts that > > > Scribus is refusing to embed are Junicode Regular and > > > FreeSerif Medium, both of which are TrueType fonts. Both are > > > also free open source fonts released under the GPL. The > > > document contains no OpenType fonts. > > > > - Open Scribus, but not any document. > > > > - go to preference/fonts/ > > > > - remouve the cross in partial play (jeu in french) an see if > > the cross is in the square for postscript use. > > > > - Open your document, make PDF, and embed fonts if they are in > > outlines in the windows PDF export. > > Merci! > > OK, I discovered something. All the fonts had the "Embed in > PostScript" box checked. But the two troublesome fonts (Junicode > Regular and FreeSerif Medium) had the Subset box checked. The > Subset box was unchecked for the other fonts used in the > document. > > I unchecked the Subset box for those fonts, closed Scribus, > reopened Scribus and the document. Then I exported as PDF and the > two fonts in question still came up in the Outline window, but > this time I was able to move them up to the Embed window. > > After exporting to PDF I opened the file in Adobe Reader. The > file size was still quite large and Reader still took several > minutes to open it. It also takes over a full minute to move to > the next page. However, in File > Properties > Fonts Adobe Reader > said all the fonts were embedded. > > So I have made some progress - at least I have managed to get the > fonts embedded. However, the speed issue remains. Something is > wrong with the way I am exporting to PDF: > > (Note that the size of the Scribus file is 32 MB.) > > Export from Scribus, PDF 1.4 > Embed fonts - file size is 117 MB, Reader is slower than > molasses on display and printing > Outline fonts - ditto > Uncheck "Compress Text and Vector Graphics" - ditto > Uncheck "Embed PDF & EPS Files (EXPERIMENTAL) - ditto > Change to PDF 1.5 - ditto > > Print to CUPS-PDF > No options at all, you can't even give it a file name. Adobe > Reader says no fonts in document. File size is 18 MB, screen > display is snappy, printing is glacial. > > Print to PS, then use ps2pdf to create the PDF > No options on print to PS, except at least you can specify a > file name. Screen display of the resulting PDF is snappy, > printing is still too slow, but a bit faster than producing the > PDF via CUPS-PDF. File size is 22 MB. > > Another issue that I don't understand is "encoding" in Adobe > Reader. For all seven fonts used in the document (when embedded) > Reader says the encoding is "custom." All of the fonts are > supposedly Unicode compliant. I don't know where the "custom" > came from or if it may have something to do with the speed > issues. > > The real issue for me is print speed. I have far bigger and more > complex PDFs created from other programs that display and print > just fine. At this point I am not getting decent print speed out > of PDFs from Scribus whether I export from Scribus or print to > CUPS-PDF or print to PS. > > Any enlightenment or suggestions would be welcome. > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
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