Hi Christoph, Thanks for the detailed reply. And I owe you an apology; I had gotten so used to manually selecting embed when creating a PDF that I somehow missed the fact that the feature I said should be default behaviour already seems to *be* default behaviour. In other words, I just ran a test and the fonts I used were embedded by default.
You folks have created an amazing piece of software, and I've very sorry to have needlessly added to your workload. Geoff *************************************************************************** Geoffrey Dow, www.ed-rex.com | https://twitter.com/ed_rex The Old Man's Last Sauna now available!http://www.bppress.ca/product/old-mans-last-sauna/ <http://www.ed-rex.com/bumblepuppy/books/ordering> *************************************************************************** On 16 February 2016 at 01:31, "Christoph Sch?fer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de > wrote: > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 16. Februar 2016 um 06:15 Uhr > > Von: "Geoffrey Dow" <geoffdow at gmail.com> > > An: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net> > > Betreff: Re: [scribus] Embedding fonts in a PDF file > > > > My experience, which goes back to 2012 or so (I forget the version > number) > > under Linux and which is now with 1.4.3 (or is that 2? The launch screen > > shows the latter, About the former) is that the default is, indeed, that > > the user has to remember to embed fonts. > > > > And, as a user, I'd like to add my voice to those who think that > embedding > > should be the default behaviour. I've done everything from brochures, to > 64 > > page magazines to a 200+page book (thank you, Scribus and Scribus devs, > by > > the way!), and in each use-case, I would have found it more useful to > have > > to disable embedding than to enable it. > > > Hi, > > > Font embedding is already available as a setting, albeit not in the PDF > section of the Preferences/Document Setup, but in Fonts. There you can > decide whether a font will be embedded, subset or converted to outlines by > default (in 1.4.x only whether it will be embedded or subset). > > The caption "Embed in PostScript" in the Fonts section might be irritating > to some, but remember that PDF is a child of PostScript, and Scribus can > create PostScript files, too (at least on Linux and Mac OS X). > > This is also described in more detail in the Online Help, which is being > shipped with Scribus in the hope that users actually read it. > > It might look unintuitive at first, but it actually makes sense, because > it's a real time-saver once you got used to it. The Fonts settings in the > Preferences/Document Setup work as a bidirectional font manager. One > direction is installed fonts: You can tell Scribus which fonts it should > use or ignore. The other direction is the handling of fonts during > PostScript/PDF export from Scribus, either generally or for your current > project. > > > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20160217/fb127fdd/attachment.html>
