[Scribus] PDF Doc Display Unreadable

Marshall Lake mlake
Tue Aug 12 21:01:32 CEST 2003


> > I have one more question [...] some letters are overlapping other
> > letters and the spacing is off at times.  The document prints fine
> > under Acrobat, and it displays fine under Scribus.  I'm using the
> > Avantgarde Book and Avantgarde Demibold fonts.
> >
> > What could be causing this display oddity under Acrobat?

> I do not have Avantgarde installed, but I do have Gothic Medium and
> Gothic Semibold (showing up as 'URW Gothic' etc. in the font dialog)
> which look precisely the same, and they look fine in Acrobat Reader, in
> a pdf created by Scribus.
>
> I wonder if it helps if you embed the font in the pdf?

When I tried using Gothic fonts the Acrobat display looked the same ...
letters overlapping.  But embedding the Avantgarde fonts works great.
The document displays fine with Acrobat.  Thanks for the help.

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