[scribus] newline issue pdf fields

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

On Monday 02 May 2011, 04:21:21 Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 05/01/2011 10:01 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> > (Copied from the Archive)
> > Attached are screenshots from areas, where the different spacing is
> > obvious. Forgive my ignorance, but looking at the menu appearance
> > with each menu item taking twice the space now it is pretty
> > intriguing (compare test-pdf-menu.png with test-pdf-menu-1.4.png).
> >
> >
> >
> > Playing around with this a bit, I get something similar with Linux
> > and 1.4.0rc3, but I did not see this spacing when viewing with
> > okular instead of Adobe Reader.
> >
> > The suggestion looking at the cursor in Adobe Reader is that the
> > linespacing is quite large, perhaps 3-4 times the size of the font,
> > not that there are extra newlines. I can't seem to find any
> > settings in AR to fix this.
> >
> > Greg
>
> Ok, I think I may have found the answer.
>
> I see that I have this problem when I export as PDF version 1.4, but
> if I export as 1.3, it goes away, so try this. Probably the older
> Scribus was exporting by default in PDF version 1.3...

Duh, silly me. 

Obviously, PDF is a pretty weak document format (not that I'm surprised 
in any way..).

Thanks a bunch, Greg, much appreciated.

Pete