Hello, On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 23:56, Bart Alberti wrote: > Query: > I still use win98 with its separate ttf and type 1 fonts. > what happens in Win XP? The so-called open type font does not distinguish > between these and Adobe Type Manager gets a complaint from Windows that it > is incompatible. I see in Linux there are separate ways to deal with these > types not unified? So how do I call these into Scribus? (other people have > XP! :-)
I am quite certain you need latest ATM 4.1 to support Open Type fonts in Win9x. I do not think V 4.0 supports Open Type. The most recent versions of freetype do support Open Type, but I am unsure of the support for them within Qt or Xfree86. So it might be a while before Scribus could support Open Type fonts. True Type Based Open Type fonts can be thought of as a True Type font with a postscript wrapper. At the moment, there are only a few Open Type fonts which are not available as Type 1 or True Type. > By the way I am currently struggling in Quark 4.1 to import a pdf which I > turned into eps using ghost script. It won't do it. etc. Possible solutions In order of preference: 1) There is a updated v 1.6 PDF import filter, if I recall correctly, for Quark 4.1 both Win and Mac, which was an update on www.quark.com Save the PDF as 1.3 in Scribus and place in Quark. I know this works in Quark 5, as I did this today. Caution though, Quark will not use embedded font in Scribus, but needs to be installed on the Windows machine. Testing on a Mac to follow. 2) Open in Illustrator and backsave to v 6 or 7. I have done this to fix Quark exported PDF's, which would not place in Pagemaker. 3) If on Windows, use the latest Ghostscript 8.00 and GSView 4.4 (just released) to convert with epswrite. GS View never rarely has problems with Scribus PDF in my experience. 4) Use GSView to rewrite the PDF using the pdfwrite device with pre-press option in GSView. See my other post earlier regarding PDF quality. Franz has stayed stricly to the specs, so problems with Scribus PDF is more likely application bug. Hope that helps, Peter -- Peter Linnell <scribusdocs at atlantictechsolutions.com>
