[scribus] embedding fonts in pdf fails with Windows 8

[john Culleton]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 16:04:38 +0100
Andreas Winkler <and.win82 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Chrisoph,
> 
> thanks for your answer. I'm aware of the
> limitation that huge modern TTF and OTF fonts
> can not be embedded. However, in Windows 8
> certain fonts (e.g. Arial) can't be embedded at
> all even if 'Subset' is unchecked. They will
> always be converted to outlines even though
> they appear in the 'Fonts to embed:' field in
> the 'Fonts' tab of the pdf export settings. The
> very same fonts can be embedded when using
> Scribus 1.4.3 on Windows 7. So I suspect this
> to be an issue of Scribus in combination with
> Windows 8. I consider this to be a serious
> limitation and I would like to issue a bug
> report on Mantis. Unfortunately, the
> registration for the bug tracker seems to be
> closed.
> 
> Best regards
> Andreas
> 
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:22 AM, "Christoph
> Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote:
> >> Gesendet: Montag, 02. Dezember 2013 um 20:11
> >> Uhr Von: "Andreas Winkler"
> >> <and.win82 at gmail.com> An:
> >> scribus at lists.scribus.net Betreff: [scribus]
> >> embedding fonts in pdf fails with Windows 8
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm a new user of Scribus and I'm quite
> >> impressed by its capabilities so far. I plan
> >> to move away from Indesign. I run Scribus
> >> 1.4.3 on Windows 8.1 64 bit. It seems not to
> >> be possible to embed certain system fonts
> >> into pdf when exporting, regardless whether
> >> 'subset' is checked or not. The affected
> >> fonts are those which appear grouped in the
> >> Windows Explorer in C:\Windows\Fonts (for
> >> example Arial or Times New Roman), for all
> >> other fonts embedding works as expected.
> >> I've tried to export the same sla file with
> >> Scribus 1.4.3 running on Windows 7 and there
> >> it was possible to embed all fonts as
> >> expected. So I think that this issue is
> >> related to Windows 8. I'd be interested in
> >> whether this is a known issue and whether
> >> there exists a workaround (except for
> >> changing the OS :-)). Has anybody else
> >> experienced this problem when running
> >> Scribus on Windows 8?
> >>
> >
> > Hi Andreas,
> >
> > You cannot embed certain fonts because
> > embedding is disabled by default due to their
> > size (modern TTF and OTF font files can be
> > quite huge). Instead, Scribus will convert
> > these fonts to outlines. You can, however,
> > override the default settings.
> >
> > Go to File -> Document Setup -> Fonts for the
> > current document or to File -> Preferences ->
> > Fonts for every new file. There you can
> > uncheck the fonts marked for "Subset" in the
> > respective column. Unchecking means they can
> > be embedded now, but be aware that exported
> > PDF files can become *really* huge.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Christoph
> >
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My suggestion: Use a font not provided by
Microsoft. There are many equivalent fonts
available at fontsquirrel.com. Or you could use
fonts that come with texlive2013.



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