[scribus] Problem embedding fonts in pdf and workaround

[Simon Heimbach]

Hi Joe,

outlining fonts always works fine. But it does come with a cost:
 - you text cannot be searched anymore and copy-and-paste does not work
 - the quality might be worse on screens as an outlined text cannot be
hinted and kerned
 - in print the printer cannot adjust the text when needed

Why are you not using the 1.5-series of Scribus. I am using it for years
and it does a much better job for me then 1.4. Just remember that once
you saved a file with 1.5 you cannot go back to 1.4 as it won't open it.

Simon

Am 25.10.20 um 01:57 schrieb Joe Zeff:
> Just this week, my copy of Scribus 1.4.6 (the most recent version
> provided for Fedora 31) failed to embed the three fonts needed to render
> my newsletter correctly.  No matter what I did, it would only embed the
> highlighted one, and if I tried to embed a different font, it would
> simply replace the listed font with that one.  And, as I use Linux, and
> the person printing it out has Windows, his machine had to make
> substitutions.  No only were its choices bad, they rendered very pale,
> which is, I presume, an artifact of his computer and OS.
> 
> Last night, I made an experiment: I made a new pdf of that file, but
> instead of embedding the fonts, I outlined them and sent it off.  Not
> only did that work, it lowered the size of the file from almost 650 KB
> to 47 KB, when I'd have expected the opposite.  In the future, I'll be
> outlining fonts, because I'm old enough to remember when bandwidth was
> rare and expensive, and still hate using it up for no good reason.
> 
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