Craig Bradney wrote: > On Wednesday 01 December 2004 08:30, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Craig Bradney wrote: >> > On Tuesday 30 November 2004 16:41, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> >> >> I created a PDF form with Scribus 1.2. When I view this form in a >> >> browser (IE or Firefox, doesn't matter - both on XP), the text first >> >> looks horrible: >> >> http://www.uploadimages.net/show.php?img=818040_Scribus_PDF_Bad_Fonts.pn >> >>g >> >> >> >> After some time, the text however looks quite good - it seems like >> >> it has loaded the embedded fonts or something. >> >> http://www.uploadimages.net/show.php?img=855342_Scribus_PDF_Good_Fonts.p >> >>ng >> > >> > Maybe thats what its doing. It looks fine here. The fonts are embedded. >> > Look in Document Properties in Acrobat Reader. >> >> Well, yes, but why does it *only* happen with this Scribus PDF form? I >> have *never* seen this behaviour before. >> >> Hm, did you open the PDF with Acrobat 5.0 or 6.0? The behaviour >> is present in 6.0 as well, but not as visible. In 5.0, it is very much >> visible. And not only on my machine :) > > Acro 5 on Linux loading in Konqueror.
Okay. Please use Acrobat 5.0 on Windows. And don't load it in the Acrobat Reader program but only in the plugin. > I guess you could convert the fonts to > outline (use subset all option on export). Then they will all just be vectors > and you wont need the fonts to load. Will try that, thanks! >> >> Can I somehow improve that, so that the text is rendered directly >> >> with the correct font? >> > >> > If its is loading over the net, perhaps a faster connection? :) >> >> Not possible. Nothing's faster than localhost :) And if 100 MBit/s >> isn't good enough, well.... (No, the 100MBit/s don't have anything >> to do with localhost.) > > Ok, I thought you had done a test over the net too. Yep, I did. However, I also tested localhost, and since it misbehaves the same there... Alexander Skwar -- lighthouse, n.: A tall building on the seashore in which the government maintains a lamp and the friend of a politician. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
