[Scribus] Problem exporting chinese caracters in PDF

[Vladimir Zborowski]

Hello Peter,
Thanks, again.
I seems to work perfectly fine like that ;-).
I must say I'm really impressed by the reactivity of this list.
By the way,  is it  necessary to add a bug to the bug tracker for this 
issue?

Vlad


Peter Linnell wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 17:48, Vladimir Zborowski wrote:
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>Well, I have figured out a work around:
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>Select the text frame and go Item > Convert to Outlines
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>Then export the PDF.
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>Results: 
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>The fonts are turned into postscript outlines and can be scaled etc.
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>Chinese and most Asian fonts are big to huge, owing to the number of
>glyphs. Some Japanese Open Type fonts I have  are 8+ Mb, just for a
>single font, compared to 50-300k for Latin or Unicode fonts. 
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>By converting the fonts to outlines, the PDF shrunk from 2.7 Mb to 158
>kb.
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>>From what I can see, this should print perfectly, even on commercial
>printing presses, but I can verify this in the next day or so sending it
>to a RIP. I do not expect any issue, based on past experience.
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>As I know nothing about Chinese fonts, please have the client verify the
>PDF under high levels of zoom. 
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>Chalk one up to Scribus, where the others have failed! While, this does
>not mean Scribus fully supports Asian scripts, it does show it is more
>capable sometimes than even we realize :-)
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>Cheers
>Peter
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