On 02/15/2016 12:24 PM, Michael Holmes wrote: > I've just joined the Scribus list, although I've been using Scribus for > several months now. It's a great package! I have one suggestion for > improving the package: I think that there should be a Preferences > setting to automatically embed fonts when doing a PDF export. As it is > now in 1.4.6, you have to remember to specify this every time you do an > export. It seems like an obvious candidate for a Preferences setting, > under the PDF Export category in Preferences. > > I only use Scribus about once a month or so, and it's easy to forget > this step. The resulting PDF will look fine on my machine, since I have > all the fonts that I used, but the fonts will get changed when viewed on > a different machine that doesn't have them. >
I think the default behavior is to try to embed or subset fonts, but some fonts cannot be embedded. We also see instances where a font must be outlined. Aside from this, one of the skills of making PDFs is not to just blindly create them without looking at these issues. Greg
