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They updated their printer software and it seems that they can work with it now. But I still wonder what the difference is. Is Scribus producing a PDF with less information (subset) than ID or other DTP software (full font information)?<br>
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Or is this just one printer's opinion?<br>
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Or is this a result of using TT-fonts, versus other fonts (OTF, PS-Type-1, ...)?<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Sub-setting is very common, especially with modern fonts containing many glyphs. A single font can be 15-20 MB in size, if you only use 1/10th of the glyphs in the font, why embed the whole font? Ten fonts of that size would make the PDF 150 MB larger.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Also a PDF can not contain all types of fonts, I think for example OTF is one exception (there is a page on the wiki about this). In that case Scribus will have to convert the font, and I think this may look just like a subset font.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">So subsetting does not prevent the PDF from printing correctly, it may however affect the possibilities to do edits to the PDF. <br><br>In "the old days" the printer used to do "last minute edits" of the PDF before printing (because the PDF was delivered on a CD-ROM or zip-disk by regular mail, so it could take a day or two to send a new PDF), but today it's generally better if you do the edit yourself (because you can send a new PDF to the printer in minutes). <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">/Peter<br></div></div>