[Scribus] two scribus questions

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

> Hello, 
> 
> Thanks for your answer. I will try the latest GSview. 
> 
> Changing the settings on Acrobat's preferences helps a bit but the quality is
> 
> still not the same as with Acrobat 7 on windows (you can see the pdf for your
> 
> self on the link I posted).
> 
> Best regards
> Gustavo
> 
> ary 2005 14:07, PLinnell wrote:
> > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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> >
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Comparing Acro 7 on Windows and Acro 5 on Linux is not really fair ;-)

I tested the display on Acro 5 Pro for windows and Acro 5 Reader for Linux. The
display to me is the same at the same zoom levels.

Cheers,

Peter

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