On Monday 14 February 2005 15:44, tech at atlantictechsolutions.com wrote: > Quoting Gustavo Homem <gustavo at login.com.pt>: > > Hello, > > > > Thanks for your answer. I will try the latest GSview. > > > > Changing the settings on Acrobat's preferences helps a bit but the > > quality is > > > > still not the same as with Acrobat 7 on windows (you can see the pdf for > > your > > > > self on the link I posted). > > > > Best regards > > Gustavo > > > > ary 2005 14:07, PLinnell wrote: > > > Quoting Gustavo Homem <gustavo at login.com.pt>: > > > > Good evening, > > > > > > > > I have just subscribed to this list. After using scribus for a while > > > > together > > > > > > > > with some friends, there are some questions we would like to pose: > > > > > > > > 1) What is the "official" PDF viewer to use with Scribus ? > > > > > > > > The ghostview based views (gv, kghostview) do not render the > > > > scribus > > > > generated PDFs (ghostscript returns errors).Xpdf renders the document > > > > but > > > > > > the > > > > > > > > fonts are not accurate. Acrobat Reader 5 for Linux produces the best > > > > result but the fonts are usually blurred and show antialiasing > > > > artifacts. > > > > > > Acrobat Reader 7 for windows, shows the PDF perfectly. > > > > > > See the last few paragraphs of : > > > > http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=exportingtopdf&page=pdfexpor > >t1 > > > > > Plus, your Acro Reader prefs might not be correct. See: > > > http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=dtptoolbox&page=toolbox1 > > > > > > > An example PDF to illustrate the problem can be found here: > > > > > > > > http://people.login.com.pt/~gustavo/scribus > > > > > > > > It has embbeded fonts (Microsoft Fonts installed on Linux: Verdana, > > > > Trebuchet, > > > > etc...). > > > > > > > > 2) Isn't there a way to to insert a file into a running scribus > > > > session > > > > ? > > > > > > (like gimp-remote) > > > > > > > > Calling scribus twice with two different files, opens two > > > > instances > > > > of scribus. > > > > > > No. > > > > > > > Best regards > > > > Gustavo > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > generation grep > > > > > > Hope that helps, > > > > > > Peter > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > > > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Scribus mailing list > > > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > > > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > > > -- > > generation grep > > Comparing Acro 7 on Windows and Acro 5 on Linux is not really fair ;-)
Well, it's Latest for Windows vs Latest for Linux..... I wish adobe started releasing better products for linux, but probably when they make up their minds everything will be covered by nice OSS like scribus :-) > > I tested the display on Acro 5 Pro for windows and Acro 5 Reader for Linux. > The display to me is the same at the same zoom levels. I've just tried xpdf 3.0 and it does a good job as well. Regards Gustavo > > Cheers, > > Peter -- generation grep
