[scribus] I have a problem exporting from Scribus

[Gregory Pittman]

On 3/18/19 9:17 AM, Holger Wästlund wrote:
> Hi,
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> I am relatively new as a user of Scribus and have the following problem:
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> I have written a manual, approx. 150 pages, and I have now finished a text
> document and a cover inlay for the book in Scribus, and it seems to be okay.
> When I export the text file from Scribus as a pdf, the actual export works
> fine. But when I check the pdf file where it landed in my computer all the
> letters "l" (that is, the first letter in the word lucky) and even big "I" (
> for example, in the Roman numerals I, II, etc.) are shown as fat "l". It
> looks very odd, and it occurs in several places in the text.
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> I have tried to export the file as pdf from Scribus three or four times and
> the error is repeated.
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> I suspected that it might have to do with the fact that the text file is
> large, 170000 KB = 0.17 GB, so I tried just to export the first 40 pages.
> Then the pdf became 78000 kB but with the same error. I have even tried to
> export only the first 20 pages but unfortunately with the same strange
> error. 
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> Has anyone any tips to give me regarding this, for me, very strange problem?
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Hi Holger,

Sometimes this can merely be a display problem. To check this out, you can enlarge the text on the screen and see if this appearance persists. Ultimately, printing out a page to see if this appearance is there on the printed page would be the final test.

If it is there even when printed you have to go back to Scribus and check out these letters to find out what happened. Using paragraph styles can make this easier than fiddling with individual letters.

I don't think the size of the file makes any difference.

Greg