[Scribus] pdf printing problem

[Martin Tlustos]

Am Montag, 14. April 2008 21:26:04 schrieb Wayne:
> I run ads in two of our daily newspapers for our
> production and I use Scribus to create the pdf files.
> I've been doing this for the past several years.
> Recently, I submitted 2 ads, one in black & white to
> one newspaper and a spot color ad to another paper. The
> black & white ad printed fine but the one with spot
> color shifted two of the letter "A"s in the ad. This
> shift was  enough to cause one word to be illegible.
>
> The production person said that the pdf file looked
> good before the print but came out mangled after the
> print and that there was no way that they could fix it.
> I asked if his software was the current version and he
> said it was. He tried to find out what was causing it
> but could not do it.
> His suggestion was that I use InDesign or Quark. I
> previewed the files on Acrobat Reader and they both
> looked fine.
>
> My question is this: Is the problem on my side (Scribus
> 1.3.3.10cvs) or his? Has anyone else experienced this
> kind of problem?
>
> The black and white ad, which was virtually identical
> (except without the spot color) to the color one
> printed fine at a different newspaper. I embedded all
> fonts in the pdf files.
>
> Wayne Maeda
> Scribus 1.3.3.10cvs
> Mandriva 2008
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Wayne,
2 guesses:
1) what font did you use? Did you use it before and did it give you problems? 
I know that Arial and Helvetica sometimes make trouble (at least I had 
trouble with printing).
2) Try outline the fonts
Cheers,
Martin