Hello Peter, Thanks, again. I seems to work perfectly fine like that ;-). I must say I'm really impressed by the reactivity of this list. By the way, is it necessary to add a bug to the bug tracker for this issue?
Vlad Peter Linnell wrote: >On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 17:48, Vladimir Zborowski wrote: > > >Well, I have figured out a work around: > >Select the text frame and go Item > Convert to Outlines > >Then export the PDF. > >Results: > >The fonts are turned into postscript outlines and can be scaled etc. > >Chinese and most Asian fonts are big to huge, owing to the number of >glyphs. Some Japanese Open Type fonts I have are 8+ Mb, just for a >single font, compared to 50-300k for Latin or Unicode fonts. > >By converting the fonts to outlines, the PDF shrunk from 2.7 Mb to 158 >kb. > >>From what I can see, this should print perfectly, even on commercial >printing presses, but I can verify this in the next day or so sending it >to a RIP. I do not expect any issue, based on past experience. > >As I know nothing about Chinese fonts, please have the client verify the >PDF under high levels of zoom. > >Chalk one up to Scribus, where the others have failed! While, this does >not mean Scribus fully supports Asian scripts, it does show it is more >capable sometimes than even we realize :-) > >Cheers >Peter > > > > > > > >
