[scribus] Embedding fonts in a PDF file

["Christoph Schäfer"]

> 
> On 2/17/16 1:27 AM, Peter Nermander wrote:
> >>
> >> As for your problem: Did you make sure that there were no other font
> >> options like Subsettting activated by default in the font section of the
> >> Prefs/Doc Setup? If so, that seems to be an issue on Mac OS X, because I
> >> tried on Windows 7 and several Linux distros, all of which worked as
> >> expected.
> >>
> >>
> > On Windows 7 I have always had to click the [Embed all] button in the PDF
> > export dialog to make sure all fonts are embedded. Every time I export to
> > PDF.
> >
> > /Peter
> >
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> Thanks for telling me about the list's email convention, I did not know 
> that.
> 
> To answer your question: the fonts used in my document are Arial Bold, 
> Arial Bold Italic, Arial Regular and Book Antiqua Bold Italic.  In the 
> Fonts pane of Preferences, "Embed" is checked for all the fonts, and 
> "Subset" is checked for the Arial fonts but not for the Book Antiqua.  
> It's Book Antiqua that isn't displaying properly on other systems.  I'll 
> try checking "Subset" on that one and see what happens.  I have to admit 
> that I don't know what it means to "subset" a font.
> 
> If you've been following this thread, you will have seen an email from 
> Peter Nermander who sees this problem under Windows 7, and one from 
> Geoffrey Dow who sees it under Linux.  So it's not just me, and it's not 
> just OSX.  I don't know why you don't see it in your environment.
> 
> How do you check to see that the file is created properly?  I don't have 
> any way to examine a PDF file to see whether the fonts are embedded.  I 
> can only test by trying to view the file on a system that doesn't have 
> all of the fonts installed.  I have a Bootcamp partition on my iMac that 
> has Windows 7 installed.  I have to reboot into Windows and view the 
> file there to see if it worked properly. If I view the file under OSX 
> using Preview, it looks fine because all of the fonts are present on my 
> my iMac.  (You probably understand all of this already, I'm just putting 
> it out there.)
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to look into this issue!
> 
> Michael

Hi Michael,

Would you mind uploading the version of Book Antiqua you're using to the Scribus bugtracker and marking the report as "private"?

Your particular issue might be something that can be fixed in 1.4.7, too, but our wizards will have to take a closer look into the font file(s).

Thanks,

Christoph