On 08/17/2010 04:41 PM, peter linnell wrote: > On 8/17/10 6:51 PM, John Culleton wrote: >> On Tuesday 17 August 2010 12:13:52 Nathan wrote: >>> Submitted on 08/17/2010 >>> Submitted by anonymous user: [10.1.5.224] >>> >>> Submitted values are: >>> >>> Name: Nathan >>> Email Address: evokal at gmail.com >>> Subject: exporting to .pdf messes up the fonts in final doc. >>> Message: >>> Hey I am using Arial font for my upcoming book, but everytime I export >> the >>> file to .pdf and open it - something weird has happens to the font - it >>> looks darker, and messier than in Scribus and the letter L looks like it >>> has been stretched and bolded every time. (by the way, in Scribus >>> everything looks perfect) >>> >>> Any ideas why this has happened? I also exported the same file last week >>> and it worked fine - so I am not sure what is going on today. >>> >>> thanks in advance. >>> >>> Nathan >>> >>> About your Scribus program: >>> Version: 1.3.3.14 >>> Prebuilt/Compiled: Prebuilt >>> Build Date: >>> Your operating system and CPU: >>> Type: Windows >>> Version: Win7 >>> CPU type: Other/Don't know >>> >>> The results of this submission may be viewed at: >>> http://www.scribus.net/?q=node/158/submission/525 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> scribus mailing list >>> scribus at lists.scribus.info >>> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >> >> Could be a problem with your pdf viewer. Try magnifying the image and see >> if the artifacts disappear. Print out a page locally and see if it >> prints OK. >> >> If you are publishing a book in the US or the UK I would suggest a >> serif and >> not a sans-serif font. For these audiences sans-serif fonts are tiring >> and >> irritating. >> >> I would suggest using something other than the standard Microsoft or >> Adobe >> fonts. Sometimes unexpected font substitution can occur. Deja Vu family >> has both Serif and Sans-Serif faces. > > John is correct here on both accounts: > > This is long standing issue which happens with certain glyphs in Arial > and it is not only Scribus PDFs which cause this. Sometimes is it the > display preferences setting within Acrobat Reader which amplify this > display distortion. > > Second, I strongly as a matter of design taste to reccomend another font > than Arial. It is optimized for screen display, not high resolution > printing. On http://wiki.scribus.net there is a good article on finding > usable high quality free fonts. >
Make sure your fonts are embedded also. Greg
