[Scribus] font artifacts on Scribus PDFs

[jon]

> http://people.angulosolido.pt/~pessoa/print/brochura_institucional.pdf
> http://angulosolido.pt/brochuras/ag.pdf
>
> with Scribus which printed quite nicely.
>
> However there are visual artifacts when viewing them on Adobe  
> Reader affecting
> the character "l".
>
> Here is a screenshot of the problem:
>
> http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/art-effects- 
> l.png
>
> The problem doesn't show up on the print preview inside Scribus nor  
> on real
> printing.
>
> The original file is here:
>
> http://people.angulosolido.pt/~gustavo/scribus/probPDF/ag.sla
>
> Notes:
>
> - Scribus allways outlines the font in question (Futura Lt Light) -  
> it can't
> be embbeded
> - Zooming to 2400% on Adobe Reader we see that the "l"s seem to be  
> outlined
> differently from other characters - it doesn't change with changing  
> the
> "smooth line art" on Adobe Reader.


Hi Gustavo the above mentioned PDF seems to be nearly(?) ok in  
Preview/OSX.
Here's a screenshot:

http://www.jonhagen.de/transfer/Test.png
viewer: Preview/OSX - clean vertical beams

http://www.jonhagen.de/transfer/Test2.png
viewer: AR8, OSX 10.4.9 - some but not many fattened verticals

http://www.jonhagen.de/transfer/Test3.png
viewer: Preview/OSX - clean vertical beams

May be a problem with AR or the AR Version?

The fatting of vertical beams is a well (guess) known problem with AR  
and some fonts, I never marked down witch fonts "I and l"s are fattened.
As far as I know and can remember it does not really matter if a font  
is converted to paths or not. Non-converted fonts show "better"  
results but not perfect ones.

BTW your Server is very very slow. It takes more than 5 minutes to dl  
the pdf, just to mention this :)
cheers
Jon