[scribus] Problem embedding fonts in pdf and workaround

[ZASKE Martin]

Dear Joe,

thank you for sharing. For sending to a commercial print-shop and for
laser-printing in-house, we always outline all fonts and have never had
isses. We often add "PR" to the file-name of the very lastest,
print-ready version and of course keep the Scribus file for potential
later editing or additional print-runs.

Hinting and searching are no issues in that context. And the fact that a
print-shop cannot edit, is our "insurance" against mistakes, as we are
dealing with an African minority language, and print-shops are never
qualified to change even punctuation for our orthography.

For many years I use version 1.5 which behaves very very well and always
keep version 1.4 on my machines for looking at older files and for
re-using old elements by copy and paste.

Go Scribus!


Martin





On 25/10/2020 01:57, Joe Zeff wrote:
> 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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