[Scribus] Generating PDFs

[Tino Schwarze]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 08:40:16AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote:

> > What's the resolution of your pictures (they're not part of the .sla
> > file, they are only referenced therein)?
> 
> Most figures are text frames.  There's only one SVG graphic.
> No pictures.
> 
> > You could try to convert the PDF to PS using pdftops from xpdf.
> 
> The resulting PS file truely huge, about 12x the PDF.  It doesn't
> print either.
> 
> There's a large number of "curveto" operations in the PS file,
> as if instead of printing letters from a font, it was drawing
> each letter separately.  I don't see any text in the PS file.

Then do not subset fonts in the export dialog. It will convert all text
to outlines. I think because of some issues, OTF fonts are always subset
so you might want to avoid them.

Bye, Tino.