[Scribus] pdf and helvetica font

[Craig Bradney]

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Craig

On Wednesday 06 April 2005 16:06, Farid Elyahyaoui wrote:
> BTW: did the fix get an issue number?
> can't find it in the CVS log.
>
>
> ========================================
>  Message date : 05-04-2005 23:44
>  From : "Franz Schmid" <Franz.Schmid at altmuehlnet.de>
>  To : scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
>  Copy to :
>  Subject : Re: [Scribus] pdf and helvetica font
>
>  Craig Ringer wrote:
>  >>-I'm trying to upload a pdf generated with scribus  to vistaprint.com
>  >>but they complain about the  helvetica font not being supported by
>  >>them.  I'm not using any helvetica in my document in scribus but
>  >>somehow it always ends up in the generated font as a custom type 1
>  >>font. I don't have any helvetica installed on my system.
>  >
>  > Now, this _is_ odd. I've been wondering where the "phantom" fonts in
>  > Scribus's exported PDFs come from before, but never looked into it. I
>  > just exported a *blank* document, and Acrobat Reader thinks the
>  > resulting PDF uses ZapfDingbats and Helvectica (but does not embed
>  > them).
>  >
>  > I'd be interested in knowing why this happens myself, as I don't have
>  > the time to dig into the source to find out right now.
>
>  Fixed that odd behaviour tonight in both development branches. Both
>  Acrobat Reader 5 and 7 do no longer report these fake fonts.
>
>  For Craig to know, it was caused by an entry in the Fields dictionary
>  of the PDF files, as soon there is an /DR entry pointing to a Ressource
>  dictionary, even when this is empty causes Adobe Readers to report these
>  nonexisting fonts.
>
>  Franz Schmid
>
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