[scribus] Embeding subsetting fonts, TT fonts and Open type fonts

[Gregory Pittman]

Steven Dayton wrote:
> I sent this out without a subject line so here it is again.
>
> Concerning fonts documentation talks about true type fonts but makes no
> mention of open type fonts. I have an open type font from Adobe and pretty
> sure it is a good quality font. It seems to work fine in my documents as I
> have used it. I'm not doing anything so far for high end printing but for
> screen viewing PDF.
>
> When I go to make a PDF and select the font tab in the Save As PDF dialog
> none of the fonts can be placed in the Fonts to embed field. They only
> appear in the Fonts to outline field. I don't want the fonts to be outlined
> for online viewing so when I select each one and click the arrow button that
> points to the Fonts to embed field above they are removed from the Fonts to
> outline field. The obvious thing must be the fonts.
>
> I want to be able to embed and subset the fonts. I couldn't see any way to
> do that in Scribus so my work around is opening the resulting PDF in Acrobat
> 9 Professional Extended and running a Preflight Fixup that embeds and
> subsets the font there by making for a smaller size.
>
> I'm working with both 1.3.3.13 and 1.3.5 versions.
>   
Typically, if there is no option to embed, it means you can't embed this 
font. OTF fonts are not embeddable, and some TTF fonts may also not be 
embeddable.

Greg