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On lun, 2014-05-19 at 11:20 +0100, ZASKE Martin wrote:
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On 16.05.2014 14:10, Wayne DePrince Jr. wrote:
> this thread is full of all good information as an addendum to that
> in the wiki. i am having similar issues and did not think of text as
> being a potential cause of the large PDF size. is there a way to avoid
> having Scribus outline each glyph? does it depend on the font type?
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> thanks, w
There is a special tab in the Export-to-PDF window which is dedicated to
fonts. It gives all the options available. (Gregory has already
explained that because of license issues, some options might not be
available. This depends on your fonts-philosophy and/or budget.)
So yes, if you use a font where you have the necessary rights, you can
chose to leave out the font, to embed or to outline. Or even to mix the
options, selecting font by font.
We like this very much, as we are working with an "exotic" language and
most of our readers would not be able to show or print, unless we
outline. Our Unicode fonts also happen to be very large as they cater
for many languages, so outlining in our context even reduces file size!!
So from our perspective Scribus is giving great options. And it is not
about "avoiding" to outline or not. It is about choices.
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i totally agree about the benefits of having choices. my concern (and reason for avoiding font outlining) is that if a font was outlined, the actual "text" was no longer available in the final PDF, thus text searching was not possible. most likely i am not understanding correctly what outlining a font actually entails. however, in my tests when a font is outlined, text searching in the PDF does not work as expected (i.e. when the font is actually embedded).<BR>
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way to go!
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ditto :)<BR>
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