[scribus] Font bolding problem when converting to pdf

[John Beardmore]

Pierre Marchand wrote:
> Vous (John Beardmore) avez écrit :

>>> 1/ By design, Scribus focuses on print output.
>> Yes -  it makes sense to focus on the situation where the highest
>> precision output is required, but that doesn't make it sensible to
>> (needlessly ?) compromise the way lower resolution output is handled.
> 
> All is in the needlesslyness! I did not do it myself but I think it has 
> _needed_ a pretty load of work to get the proper fix done. So, here I would 
> not say that "by design" the output was bad on low resolution devices. Just 
> that they were not targetted in something like "phase A".

Yes -  I may have the wrong end of the stick, but when I saw something 
like 'removes the hinting', I took it that it had somehow been decided 
that having it there was unnecessary / undesirable.


Cheers, J/.
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John Beardmore, MSc EDM (Open), B.A. Chem (Oxon), CMIOSH, AIEMA, MEI
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