[Scribus] two scribus questions

Steven Boothe steven
Wed Feb 16 21:16:08 CET 2005


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=pdfexport1
>>
>>>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...).
>>>
>>>Hope that helps,
>>>
>>>Peter
>>>
> 
> Comparing Acro 7 on Windows and Acro 5 on Linux is not really fair ;-)
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Peter

I've got the Beta of Acrobat 7 for Linux at home. I'll give it a try and 
  post my results here.

Regards,

Steven




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