Am Freitag, 18. Juni 2010 01:50:58 schrieb Julian Haines: > Hi folks, > > I've just completed a newsletter for publication with Scribus. It looks > great on the screen and if I print pages directly from Scribus to my inkjet > printer, they look good. However, when I view the generated pdf on-screen, > all of the letter l characters are disproportionately wide, to the point > where ll often displays as a single wide block! Many of the full-stop and > dash characters have the same problem, but strangely no others appear to be > affected. > If I zoom in to 800% on-screen in acrobat reader the problem is much > reduced, but is still present to a degree. If I print the pdf'd output to > my inkjet, again the problem is reduced but is still present to a > noticeable degree. > I'm using Scribus 1.3.3.13 with gs8.71 on a WinXP platform. I have Acrobat > Reader 9.3.1. I'm using only default Arial fonts as supplied with WinXP. > Actually, I've also tried the A030 fonts, but saw no change in behaviour. > > Please, could anyone point me in the right direction to get this fixed? > > Thanks, > Julian
You just stumbled across an issue that's related to forced font outlining: When a font is converted to outlines, all so-called hinting information (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinting) is lost. I assume you are using an OpenType font, and I posted a solution that allows for embedding an OTF font a few days ago. This should resolve your issue: http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2010-June/038503.html HTH Christoph
