On 03/11/2010 10:13 AM, Christoph Bloch wrote: > hi, Scribus people > > We've made quite voluminous pdf pages (maps with bike routes and > descriptions) that should be printed from a big, copier-like printer. The > pictures print ok, but the texts turn out to be potato salad. I.e. they're > from our alphabet, but not quite in the right order. > Acrobat (linux and windows) and evince (linux) display the pdf fine > (printing was tested from acrobat on windows only). It's just the big > printer that likes salad and makes some for itself because we don't feed > it any. > > I believe the pdf is version 1.4, and we used Arial as a font, (exactly in > order to avoid problems with exotic fonts...) > > You'd find the pdf here: > http://www.provelobern.ch/touren/tour_01_buempliz-laupen-neuenegg/2010_scribus/Tour_01_2010_Entwurf9.pdf > (around 6 mb). > > I'll play around with pdf versions and fonts, but as the problem is > urgent, I'd be very happy to get some hints. Thank you very much.
If it's displaying Ok, then it's not likely to be a problem with the PDF, more likely the printer driver, maybe an encoding issue? At any rate, some kind of basic interaction problem with your computer and the printer. Greg
