[scribus] Printing service problem with Scribus

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Nice idea with a shell script, but I guess that wasn't the problem here. 
It was about the main font used, and I checked for it right now, so no 
indication I forgot.

Am 13.01.2015 12:54, schrieb JLuc:
> As for me i regularly have about the same issue,
> but that is allways my fault : i forgot to embed all used fonts.
> Most of the time, i've done it once, while preparing the output,
> but then i add some more text using a new font
> and then i forgot to do it *once more* before exporting to PDF
> the upgraded version of the document.
>
> My guess is that this is the most common reason
> why printers have a bad opinion of scribus.
> :-(
>
> As for now, so as to avoid this, i use a shell script
> that checks whether all used fonts are embeded :
> https://github.com/JLuc/scribus-project-manager/blob/master/slacheckfonts
> But then i must not forgot to use it allways before each pdf export !
> It'd be much better when scribus would include this check in the
> preflight checker.
>
> So, true, scribus could do better :
> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=10770
> Preflight checker could provide an option that would go
> "check that all used fonts are either embeded or outlined in the PDF
> export".
>
> JLuc
>
>
>   Le 13/01/2015 11:13, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Now for the first time I had a problem with a PDF made by Scribus, and
>> I am not sure if the problem really is mine.
>>
>> I had a flyer and a poster to be printed by an online printing
>> service. I have known them for about 2 years now, and up
>> to now I had only good results there, no problem at all with relation
>> to Scribus.
>>
>> Now on the flyer, there were Umlauts and special letters from other
>> languages defect, French C-cedile, Spanish Nje and
>> "f " instead of "...". This happened at many places in the documents,
>> but not everywhere. There is only one font used,
>> but different weight and colors, but I can see no coincidence here.
>> The same font weight and color is good on the
>> poster, but defect on the flyer. The same font with different color
>> and weight produces defect and normal letters on the
>> flyer.
>>
>> The first guy I had on the phone yesterday told me this would happen
>> sometimes when converting the document for the
>> workflow. Although preview was good, there could still be a problem
>> with the RIP.
>>
>> Today, another guy said "oh, Scribus, that's typical, we have much
>> trouble like this with Scribus PDFs. Better try
>> another program".
>>
>> His other advice was to convert all fonts into paths.
>>
>> The documents were the same like last year, only some texts changed
>> and a slightly different layout, some different
>> colors. Same preprint setup, PDF version etc. and same version of
>> Scribus on the same machine.
>>
>> What do you think about it? Couldn't it simply be an upload problem?
>>
>> At least I would like to go sure in future, as I will certainly stay
>> with Scribus. So thanks for any input!
>>
>> Regards
>> Rolf
>>
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