[Scribus] Fonts in PDF form fields (Was: Re: Scribus Digest, Vol 50, Issue 8)

[Oleksandr Moskalenko]

* John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> [2007-04-04 11:39:00 -0700]:

> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:14:43 -0700 (PDT)
> avox <avox at arcor.de> dijo:
> 
> > > To my knowledge, it's not an Adobe/PDF limitation,
> > > it's a limitation of Scribus 1.2.* and 1.3.3.* series
> > > which has been successfully fixed by Fschmid in the
> > > 1.3.4cvs branch --  please read this bug report with
> > > the included notes and open one  of the test PDF forms
> > > I've attached to it (e.g. the last one):
> > > 
> > > http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=3282
> 
> > It was a limitation upto PDF format 1.3, but 1.4 and later support it.
> > Scribus had the above mentioned bug with that though, which is only fixed in
> > latest 1.3.3.8.
> > Also note that the you use the normal Properties Palette for setting the
> > font. 
> > The setting of "Font for 1.3 PDF" is only for when you create such a PDF
> > (which only supports a limited choice of fonts in form fields).
> 
> Rats. I need this feature and I have 1.3.3.6cvs on my Ubuntu Edgy amd64 computer, which as I recall I had to do some finagling to get installed. Is there any way to install 1.3.3.8?

debian/dists/edgy/main/binary-amd64/scribus-ng_1.3.3.8.dfsg-1_amd64.deb

is what my local copy of our repositories shows. Read
http://debian.scribus.net on how to use our repos and enjoy up-to-date scribus
without hassle.

Cheers,

Alex.

P.S.: This package is a user-contributed build from our source package done by
Sergio Cambra.