[Scribus] two scribus questions

[Gustavo Homem]

On Monday 14 February 2005 15:44, tech at atlantictechsolutions.com wrote:
> Quoting Gustavo Homem <gustavo at login.com.pt>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Thanks for your answer. I will try the latest GSview.
> >
> > Changing the settings on Acrobat's preferences helps a bit but the
> > quality is
> >
> > still not the same as with Acrobat 7 on windows (you can see the pdf for
> > your
> >
> > self on the link I posted).
> >
> > Best regards
> > Gustavo
> >
> > ary 2005 14:07, PLinnell wrote:
> > > Quoting Gustavo Homem <gustavo at login.com.pt>:
> > > > Good evening,
> > > >
> > > > I have just subscribed to this list. After using scribus for a while
> > > > together
> > > >
> > > > with some friends, there are some questions we would like to pose:
> > > >
> > > > 1) What is the "official" PDF viewer to use with Scribus ?
> > > >
> > > > 	The ghostview based views (gv, kghostview) do not render the scribus
> > > > generated PDFs (ghostscript returns errors).Xpdf renders the document
> >
> > but
> >
> > > > the
> > > >
> > > > fonts are not accurate. Acrobat Reader 5 for Linux produces the best
> > > > result but the fonts are usually blurred and show antialiasing
> >
> > artifacts.
> >
> > > > Acrobat Reader 7 for windows, shows the PDF perfectly.
> > >
> > > See the last few paragraphs of :
> >
> > http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=exportingtopdf&page=pdfexpor
> >t1
> >
> > > Plus, your Acro Reader prefs might not be correct. See:
> > > http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=dtptoolbox&page=toolbox1
> > >
> > > > An example PDF to illustrate the problem can be found here:
> > > >
> > > > http://people.login.com.pt/~gustavo/scribus
> > > >
> > > > It has embbeded fonts (Microsoft Fonts installed on Linux: Verdana,
> > > > Trebuchet,
> > > > etc...).
> > > >
> > > > 2) Isn't there a way to to insert a file into a running scribus
> > > > session
> >
> > ?
> >
> > > > (like gimp-remote)
> > > >
> > > > 	Calling scribus twice with two different files, opens two instances
> > > > of scribus.
> > >
> > > No.
> > >
> > > > Best regards
> > > > Gustavo
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > generation grep
> > >
> > > Hope that helps,
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > generation grep
>
> Comparing Acro 7 on Windows and Acro 5 on Linux is not really fair ;-)

Well, it's Latest for Windows vs Latest for Linux..... 

I wish adobe started releasing better products for linux, but probably when 
they make up their minds everything will be covered by nice OSS like scribus 

:-)


>
> I tested the display on Acro 5 Pro for windows and Acro 5 Reader for Linux.
> The display to me is the same at the same zoom levels.

I've just tried xpdf 3.0 and it does a good job as well.


Regards
Gustavo

>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter

-- 
generation grep