[scribus] Problem embedding fonts in pdf and workaround

[Ryan Johnson]

Q: "Why are you not using the 1.5 series..."

A: "(the most recent version provided for Fedora)".

People shouldn't need to install an unstable version of software to get
proper functionality. As a general rule, the Linux ecosystem is so
typically unstable that using stable packages is a necessity for keeping
things working.

On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 6:03 AM Simon Heimbach <
s.heimbach at explosive-software.de> wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> outlining fonts always works fine. But it does come with a cost:
>  - you text cannot be searched anymore and copy-and-paste does not work
>  - the quality might be worse on screens as an outlined text cannot be
> hinted and kerned
>  - in print the printer cannot adjust the text when needed
>
> Why are you not using the 1.5-series of Scribus. I am using it for years
> and it does a much better job for me then 1.4. Just remember that once
> you saved a file with 1.5 you cannot go back to 1.4 as it won't open it.
>
> Simon
>
> Am 25.10.20 um 01:57 schrieb Joe Zeff:
> > Just this week, my copy of Scribus 1.4.6 (the most recent version
> > provided for Fedora 31) failed to embed the three fonts needed to render
> > my newsletter correctly.  No matter what I did, it would only embed the
> > highlighted one, and if I tried to embed a different font, it would
> > simply replace the listed font with that one.  And, as I use Linux, and
> > the person printing it out has Windows, his machine had to make
> > substitutions.  No only were its choices bad, they rendered very pale,
> > which is, I presume, an artifact of his computer and OS.
> >
> > Last night, I made an experiment: I made a new pdf of that file, but
> > instead of embedding the fonts, I outlined them and sent it off.  Not
> > only did that work, it lowered the size of the file from almost 650 KB
> > to 47 KB, when I'd have expected the opposite.  In the future, I'll be
> > outlining fonts, because I'm old enough to remember when bandwidth was
> > rare and expensive, and still hate using it up for no good reason.
> >
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