[Scribus] PDF, Font embedding
Benjamin Dumke
scribus
Sun Mar 16 16:15:18 CET 2008
Gregory Pittman schrieb:
>> * The "Fonts to outline" box contains those fonts that will be converted
>> to outline. This does not mean creating graphics objects for every
>> letter on the page (like e.g. Inkscape would if you took a text object
>> and converted it to a path), but instead by converting the used glyphs
>> of this font to a type that PDF _can_ handle (Type 3 as the Adobe Reader
>> tells me) and embedding this resulting font into the PDF.
>>
>> Is this how it is supposed to work?
>>
> No, to the best of my knowledge outlined fonts are converted to vector
> outlines.
Why is it then, that when I use AR to check the properties of a PDF that
was created with all fonts in the "Fonts to outline" box I get something
like
+ Fo0S0
Type: Type 3
Encoding: Custom
Actual Font: Fo0S0
Actual Font Type: Type 3
for every font?
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