[Scribus] fonts and printing.

jon info
Sat Apr 28 16:12:09 CEST 2007


> monroy-lopez wrote
>> Dear list,
>> I'm on the final stages of a small 4-page A3 publication. The design
>> was done with Scribus on Gentoo.
>>
>> The printing will be done off a PDF document. I was thinking of
>> embedding the fonts in the PDF in order to prevent problems at the
>> printer. Is this something that you would recommend?
>>
>> The fonts that the document contains are: DejaVu Sans and Nimbus  
>> Mono.
> Definitly yes, embedding the fonts is always recommended if you are
> going to print your documents at a professional printer.
>
> Most print shops do not only recommend this, they are insisting having
> embedded fonts.

Another option is, if you encounter problems with the fonts or some  
of them,
to let scribus convert them to paths. Some non-pro fonts may have  
problems with
high resolution postscript devices. But this is only the option for  
(if).
Jon



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