[Scribus] pdf and helvetica font

Farid Elyahyaoui frietfriet
Wed Apr 6 16:06:23 CEST 2005


BTW: did the fix get an issue number?
can't find it in the CVS log.


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 Message date : 05-04-2005 23:44
 From : "Franz Schmid" <Franz.Schmid at altmuehlnet.de>
 To : scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
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 Subject : Re: [Scribus] pdf and helvetica font
 
 Craig Ringer wrote:
 >>-I'm trying to upload a pdf generated with scribus  to vistaprint.com 
 >>but they complain about the  helvetica font not being supported by
 >>them.  I'm not using any helvetica in my document in scribus but
 >>somehow it always ends up in the generated font as a custom type 1
 >>font. I don't have any helvetica installed on my system.
 > 
 > 
 > Now, this _is_ odd. I've been wondering where the "phantom" fonts in
 > Scribus's exported PDFs come from before, but never looked into it. I
 > just exported a *blank* document, and Acrobat Reader thinks the
 > resulting PDF uses ZapfDingbats and Helvectica (but does not embed
 > them).
 > 
 > I'd be interested in knowing why this happens myself, as I don't have
 > the time to dig into the source to find out right now.
 Fixed that odd behaviour tonight in both development branches. Both
 Acrobat Reader 5 and 7 do no longer report these fake fonts.
 
 For Craig to know, it was caused by an entry in the Fields dictionary
 of the PDF files, as soon there is an /DR entry pointing to a Ressource
 dictionary, even when this is empty causes Adobe Readers to report these
 nonexisting fonts.
 
 Franz Schmid
 
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