Hi Chrisoph, thanks for your answer. I'm aware of the limitation that huge modern TTF and OTF fonts can not be embedded. However, in Windows 8 certain fonts (e.g. Arial) can't be embedded at all even if 'Subset' is unchecked. They will always be converted to outlines even though they appear in the 'Fonts to embed:' field in the 'Fonts' tab of the pdf export settings. The very same fonts can be embedded when using Scribus 1.4.3 on Windows 7. So I suspect this to be an issue of Scribus in combination with Windows 8. I consider this to be a serious limitation and I would like to issue a bug report on Mantis. Unfortunately, the registration for the bug tracker seems to be closed.
Best regards Andreas On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:22 AM, "Christoph Sch?fer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote: >> Gesendet: Montag, 02. Dezember 2013 um 20:11 Uhr >> Von: "Andreas Winkler" <and.win82 at gmail.com> >> An: scribus at lists.scribus.net >> Betreff: [scribus] embedding fonts in pdf fails with Windows 8 >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm a new user of Scribus and I'm quite impressed by its capabilities >> so far. I plan to move away from Indesign. >> I run Scribus 1.4.3 on Windows 8.1 64 bit. It seems not to be possible >> to embed certain system fonts into pdf when exporting, regardless >> whether 'subset' is checked or not. The affected fonts are those which >> appear grouped in the Windows Explorer in C:\Windows\Fonts (for >> example Arial or Times New Roman), for all other fonts embedding works >> as expected. >> I've tried to export the same sla file with Scribus 1.4.3 running on >> Windows 7 and there it was possible to embed all fonts as expected. So >> I think that this issue is related to Windows 8. I'd be interested in >> whether this is a known issue and whether there exists a workaround >> (except for changing the OS :-)). Has anybody else experienced this >> problem when running Scribus on Windows 8? >> > > Hi Andreas, > > You cannot embed certain fonts because embedding is disabled by default due > to their size (modern TTF and OTF font files can be quite huge). Instead, > Scribus will convert these fonts to outlines. You can, however, override the > default settings. > > Go to File -> Document Setup -> Fonts for the current document or to File -> > Preferences -> Fonts for every new file. There you can uncheck the fonts > marked for "Subset" in the respective column. Unchecking means they can be > embedded now, but be aware that exported PDF files can become *really* huge. > > HTH, > > Christoph > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net
