[Scribus] font issue

[P Linnell]

On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 13:26, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> On 09 Mar 2003 12:06:39 -0500
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 18:01, Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> > > Hi Franz,
> > > 
> > > I seem to have stumbled across a font issue in the latest scribus
> > > version:
> > > 
> > > - when selecting text and setting the font as "Arial medium" and the
> > > style "italic", scribus seems to generate pdf incompatible with
> > > acrobat reader (either 4.0 or 5.0 version). Using "arial medium
> > > italic" fixes this. xpdf and ghostscript work just fine all the time,
> > > but since my printshop only has windows ...
> > > 
> > > - using the font "Century Schoolbool L Medium Italic" also seems to
> > > generate incompatible pdf. This font was used successfully in older
> > > versions of scribus.
> > > 
> > > I hope this is enough to work on ...
> > > 
> > > greetz,
> > > 
> > > Franky
> > 
> > I missed this earlier.
> > 
> > Which distro do you have? 
> > 
> > You might find some hints in
> > http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/redhat80.html
> > 
> > Although, this is mostly about redhat 8.0,  Mandrake 9.x users might
> > find this useful - and - if it is or is not - please post to the list.
> 
> I work on redhat 8.0, but have been using scribus quite some time for now,
> I've found quite some bugs that Franz was very willing to fix each time :)
> These are new bugs according to me, I don't have any issue under redhat
> itself but acrobat under windows (sorry, I forgot to mention I tested
> acrobat reader under windows) is complaining with "missing fonts" in each
> of the above mentioned cases. The scribus generated pdf was for pdf
> version 5 (not pdf/x-3, since I don't have color management configured
> correctly yet ...)

I tested the same thing:

- when selecting text and setting the font as "Arial medium" and the
> > > style "italic", scribus seems to generate pdf incompatible with
> > > acrobat reader (either 4.0 or 5.0 version). Using "arial medium
> > > italic" fixes this. xpdf and ghostscript work just fine all the time,
> > > but since my printshop only has windows ...

Same results with Acro (full version 5.0.5) and Reader 5.1

> > - using the font "Century Schoolbool L Medium Italic" also seems to
> > > generate incompatible pdf. This font was used successfully in older
> > > versions of scribus.

Works for me perfectly. 

Was this a clean install or upgrade ? 

Caveat, I am using 0.9.8pre and compiled with qt 3.1.1.

Can you send me a sample scd.gz to look at?

Hope that helps,

Peter
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