On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Jean Ghali <jghali at libertysurf.fr> wrote: > Le 03/12/2013 16:04, Andreas Winkler a ?crit : >> 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. > > > Hi, > > I had a look at this issue last night. Some fonts including Arial have been > updated on > Windows 8 and do not contain a glyph name table anymore. This is what > triggers the > conversion to outlines. Fyi the compatibility with PostScript devices of TTF > fonts without > glyph name table is not guaranteed. > > Jean > > > > > ___ > 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
Hi Jean, thanks a lot for your investigation and for this interesting information. Does this mean that it won't be possible to fix this and to embed these updated Windows fonts in a future version of Scribus? Best regards Andreas
