Q: "Why are you not using the 1.5 series..." A: "(the most recent version provided for Fedora)".
People shouldn't need to install an unstable version of software to get proper functionality. As a general rule, the Linux ecosystem is so typically unstable that using stable packages is a necessity for keeping things working. On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 6:03 AM Simon Heimbach < s.heimb...@explosive-software.de> wrote: > Hi Joe, > > outlining fonts always works fine. But it does come with a cost: > - you text cannot be searched anymore and copy-and-paste does not work > - the quality might be worse on screens as an outlined text cannot be > hinted and kerned > - in print the printer cannot adjust the text when needed > > Why are you not using the 1.5-series of Scribus. I am using it for years > and it does a much better job for me then 1.4. Just remember that once > you saved a file with 1.5 you cannot go back to 1.4 as it won't open it. > > Simon > > Am 25.10.20 um 01:57 schrieb Joe Zeff: > > Just this week, my copy of Scribus 1.4.6 (the most recent version > > provided for Fedora 31) failed to embed the three fonts needed to render > > my newsletter correctly. No matter what I did, it would only embed the > > highlighted one, and if I tried to embed a different font, it would > > simply replace the listed font with that one. And, as I use Linux, and > > the person printing it out has Windows, his machine had to make > > substitutions. No only were its choices bad, they rendered very pale, > > which is, I presume, an artifact of his computer and OS. > > > > Last night, I made an experiment: I made a new pdf of that file, but > > instead of embedding the fonts, I outlined them and sent it off. Not > > only did that work, it lowered the size of the file from almost 650 KB > > to 47 KB, when I'd have expected the opposite. In the future, I'll be > > outlining fonts, because I'm old enough to remember when bandwidth was > > rare and expensive, and still hate using it up for no good reason. > > > > ___ > > Scribus Mailing List: scribus@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 > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus@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 > -- Ryan Johnson Free Software Foundation <https://www.fsf.org/> Electronic Frontier Foundation <https://www.eff.org/> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20201028/7a09aafb/attachment.htm> ___ Scribus Mailing List: scribus@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
