[scribus] Printing service problem with Scribus

["Christoph Schäfer"]

> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2015 um 08:56 Uhr
> Von: "a.l.e" <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch>
> An: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
> Betreff: Re: [scribus] Printing service problem with Scribus
>
> On 13/01/15 17:12, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > When we sent the PDF of the Scribus manual and it didn't work at first,
> > he was able to figure out why. IIRC, we ended up having to outline some
> > fonts to get it to work.
> >
> >
> 
> if i recall it correctly, scribus was in theory doing (almost) the right 
> thing, but -- for any practical use -- what scribus was doing was not ok 
> for a printer (as a machine).
> 
> a patch to scribus helped to solve the issue.
> 
> but those are things i have heard of and i was not involved in the 
> publication of the manual, so i might be completely wrong.
> 
> ciao
> a.l.e

Greg, a.le., Rolf-Werner,

Please ignore the manual issue for the problem at hand. In hindsight, it was my dying PC that couldn't handle the available RAM anymore (or the RAM module was broken, whatever).

Regarding Rolf-Werner's problem, it *may* be a Scribus bug, but chances are it isn't. As has already been mentioned, it could also be a bug in the RIP. Moreover, InDesign's PDF export is full of font-related bugs, some of which are almost a decade old, and there's no fix in sight. Of course, Adobe offers a workaround: buy or rent Acrobat, which may or may not resolve your problems ;)

Rolf-Werner, I suggest you file a bug report and let Andreas research what went wrong.


Beste Grüße

Christoph