[Scribus] 1.3.3.8 TrueType font problem in PDF ?

[avox]

John Beale wrote:
> 
> Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
>  > First, make sure that your font is actually a quality font, not a cheap 
> rip-off.
> 
> I don't know where this font came from but since Scribus works fine with
> my 
> other fonts, I assume it is a problem with the font, so a bug report is
> not 
> welcome? 
> 

No, please go ahead and attach the problematic font.

We will check what's up with it and try to find a fix.




> Still, I am puzzled by how it can be that the font looks fine on 
> screen when I compose the text in Scribus, but the exported PDF switches 
> all the characters around.
> 
> Note: I was able to generate a correct PDF using this same font in MS 
> Publisher (Print to Adobe PDF 'printer' device). For that PDF, Acrobat 7
> in 
> Document Properties/Fonts says:
> 
> EdwardianScriptITC (Embedded Subset)
> Type: TrueType
> Encoding: Ansi
> 
> ...whereas with the Scribus-exported (and messed-up) PDF, Acrobat 7 
> Document Properties/Fonts says:
> 
> EdwardianScriptITC (Embedded)
> Type: TrueType
> Encoding: Custom
> 
> Is something about "Ansi" vs "Custom" font encoding that is at issue? Is 
> one or both of these programs re-encoding the font? I know nothing about 
> font programming. I am just reporting this in case it helps anyone else.
> 

Yes, that will be the root of the problem. The encoding defines which chars
gets mapped to what glyphs. There are several ways how that can be coded
in a font. Scribus always defines a custom encoding based on that, an it 
appears that this process gets messed up.

/Andreas
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