[scribus] Times new roman regular not incorporated in pdf

[Jan Schrewe]

Simone Ambrosini schrieb am Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2008:
> it's the ttf from windows xp. when i try to embed the font, the psd export
> put that font in the outlines :(... i prefer to have it in the embedded
> ones, i think it will be more compatible for print shop, and to share it,
> overall embedding it gives me a lighter PDF.
>
>
> 2008/12/4 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com>
>
> > Simone Ambrosini wrote:
> >> well... i have some problems with times new roman regular because when i
> >> export to pdf the others fonts (times new roman bold/italic,
> >> bitstreamvera)
> >> are well incorporated in PDF, so it appears as text. but times regular
> >> (only
> >> reglar, with bold or italic it is ok) is converted in bitmap, so i got a
> >> pdf
> >> full of images for the text (the main text is in times regular) instead
> >> of real text. That means that i have an heavy and low-res (text is
> >> better because is vector) PDF.
> >>
> >> the only solution is to not to incorporate the font, but i rick to have
> >> some
> >> problems in print shop, when i bring them the PDF to print. otherwise i
> >> can
> >> try to change (as my teacher and collegues suggested me) the font, from
> >> times to bitstream, but i want to resolve this problem (also in case of
> >> future needings)
> >>
> >> it's an already known problem?
> >
> > Make sure fonts are embedded -- check in the PDF export dialog. You could
> > try converting to outlines instead.
> > What kind of font is it? PS1, TTF, or OTF?
> >
> > Greg

Hi,

If it is embedded as outlines, it is not a bitmap. From my experience print 
shops have no problem at all with outlined fonts. I have heared of some that 
even require fonts to be outlines and reject embedded fonts. So, no problem 
on that side.

Jan