[Scribus] two scribus questions

[PLinnell]

Quoting Gustavo Homem <gustavo at login.com.pt>:

> Good evening,
> 
> I have just subscribed to this list. After using scribus for a while together
> 
> with some friends, there are some questions we would like to pose:
> 
> 1) What is the "official" PDF viewer to use with Scribus ?
> 
> 	The ghostview based views (gv, kghostview) do not render the scribus 
> generated PDFs (ghostscript returns errors).Xpdf renders the document but the
> 
> fonts are not accurate. Acrobat Reader 5 for Linux produces the best result 
> but the fonts are usually blurred and show antialiasing artifacts. Acrobat 
> Reader 7 for windows, shows the PDF perfectly.

See the last few paragraphs of :
http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=exportingtopdf&page=pdfexport1

Plus, your Acro Reader prefs might not be correct. See:
http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=dtptoolbox&page=toolbox1
> 
> An example PDF to illustrate the problem can be found here:
> 
> http://people.login.com.pt/~gustavo/scribus
> 
> It has embbeded fonts (Microsoft Fonts installed on Linux: Verdana,
> Trebuchet, 
> etc...).
> 
> 2) Isn't there a way to to insert a file into a running scribus session ?  
> (like gimp-remote)
> 
> 	Calling scribus twice with two different files, opens two instances of 
> scribus.

No. 
> 
> Best regards
> Gustavo
> 
> 
> -- 
> generation grep
> 
Hope that helps,

Peter





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