[scribus] Times new roman regular not incorporated in pdf

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Thu Dec 4 16:56:24 CET 2008


Simone Ambrosini wrote:
> well... i have some problems with times new roman regular because when i
> export to pdf the others fonts (times new roman bold/italic, bitstreamvera)
> are well incorporated in PDF, so it appears as text. but times regular (only
> reglar, with bold or italic it is ok) is converted in bitmap, so i got a pdf
> full of images for the text (the main text is in times regular) instead of
> real text. That means that i have an heavy and low-res (text is better
> because is vector) PDF.
>
> the only solution is to not to incorporate the font, but i rick to have some
> problems in print shop, when i bring them the PDF to print. otherwise i can
> try to change (as my teacher and collegues suggested me) the font, from
> times to bitstream, but i want to resolve this problem (also in case of
> future needings)
>
> it's an already known problem?
>   
Make sure fonts are embedded -- check in the PDF export dialog. You 
could try converting to outlines instead.
What kind of font is it? PS1, TTF, or OTF?

Greg




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