[Scribus] Problems with Scribus-Generated .pdf files/Text extracted from Scribus Pdf Documents

[Rainer Heilke]

Actually, I've been finding that some fonts don't embed worth beans. 
Whether that's a Scribus issue, or freetype, I don't know.

Somewhat related to this, there are two "embed" options. My last 
newsletter became enormous with the regular embed option, and wouldn't 
print. I selected the "subset" option (sorry, I'm rushing to work, so I 
can't fire up Scribus for the exact name) and the size came right back 
down to a reasonable size, and would print. (I didn't have this issue 
with previous newsletters.) The font embedding problem was the same, 
regardless of the embed option.

Rainer Heilke

Craig Bradney wrote:

>Hi Walt,
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>>in an effort to use scribus to print color flyers we came about
>>two problems with Scribus-generated .pdf files:
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>>firstly, when the pdf-file is inspected with Acrobat-Reader
>>Professional (Version 6.02 Windows), Acrobat seems to be unable to
>>display the fontnames for text in the pdf-file (which it shows when
>>pdf-files generated with other programs are inspected).
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>This sounds like you used subsetting, which in Scribus, at this point also 
>converts to outlines. Otherwise, there will be font names in the PDFs. 
>However, read below...
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>>secondly, when you try to select text from a .pdf file, the text is
>>utterly garbled and words are split randomly. I surmise that tiny
>>spaces may be used for microspacing/kerning within words, which at the
>>same time makes the text select tool pretty much useless in
>>conjunction with Scribus-generated  pdf's.
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>If the text is utterly garbled to view, then you have not embedded the fonts 
>at all. When exporting, please go to the fonts tab and click Embed All Fonts.
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>If the text has been converted to outlines due to subsetting, then you may 
>indeed have selection issues.
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>>Any thought on why this is so, and whether there are plans to fix this
>>would be appreciated.
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>As above.
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>>Scribus is great, however when you have to hand files to other
>>printing people that happen to use Acrobat to inspect incoming files,
>>especially the first problem leads to a cascade of requests and hence
>>problems.
>>
>>If somebody is willing/able to tackle this, I'd be happy to test.
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>We test Scribus PDFs with Acrobat Pro and some other tools like Enfocus 
>Pitstop to guarantee Scribus PDFs are 100% compliant. If you find any issues 
>and can give us a Pitstop report (for example), or even just a link to a 
>sample PDF that we can download, we will test it and make sure its 100% PDF 
>compliant.
>
>regards
>Craig
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