[Scribus] Fonts won't embed, only subset

[Craig Ringer]

avox wrote:
> 
> Colin Lewis wrote:
>> In Scribus 1.3.3.1 on Windows XP, with Ghostscript 8.53, I cannot get
>> Times
>> New Roman Regular or Bold to embed. It will only allow subsetting. 
>> ...
>> Same goes for Arial.

As previously mentioned, if the're OTF then Scribus can't do true 
subsets of them yet (IIRC because it was found to be unreliable with a 
variety of older RIPs etc). They'll be looking bad in Adobe Reader 
because it won't be smoothing line-art. Enable that option and things 
should look fine (they'll print fine too, with or without smooth line 
art on).

>> All I want is one serif and one sans-serif font that will work properly in
>> regular, bold, and italic.
>>
> 
> You should try not to embed Times New Roman or Arial at all. Those get
> usually mapped to the standard PS/PDF fonts Times and Helvetica and
> should be supported by any PDF viewer or PS printer.

A lot of printers require you to embed these fonts. Given that PDF has 
accurate character placement even with slightly different fonts, I'm not 
really sure why, but they often do.

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Craig Ringer