On Saturday 25 June 2005 01:09, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Hi all, > > I created a huge file designed as a plate (965 mmm x 965 mmm) for > digital print. PDF creation went fine (as usual) and I went to the > printer for a test drive. > > At the printer, we had problems with Acrobat running out of memory > (Acrobat loaded the ~ 8 MB file fine, but feel asleep while producing > the final output) and we figured embedded fonts (three) as the most > probable reason. The folks at the print shop told me this used to happen > often with embedded fonts. I am used to produce output for print on > paper, not plates, and my experience in that field is somewhat limited, > so I went home and tried two different approaches: > > No. 1: export to EPS. Unfortunately, the document is a bit complex > (different layers, one of them with opacity set to 60%). I lost the > opacity and the backgrund image didn't appear in the EPS. So I tried > > No. 2: Converting all text to outlines. Now I lost all hyphens (the > problem is not unique to scribus -- some vector programmes do the same). > I went back to start, replaced all text frames turned to outline with > real text and tried EPS again. Since then, scribus continues to crash > with signal #6 every time I try to save as EPS (note 1: ghostscript is > 8.15; note 2: printing to file (PS) lets scribus crash too). > > So what to do? I did an export to BMP with 2000 dpi and converted it to > TIF. Maybe resolution will be high enough for the plate. And I did a > second version (PDF) with all text turned to outline after inserting > hyphens manually ([-], not [Ctrl]+[-]). > > Any ideas for a better solution? Before filing a bug report for the > hyphens/hyphenation problem, I think it's better to hear the opinion of > others on the topic.
Tried exporting to PDF but with subsetting of fonts on instead of embedding? In the current code this converts all text to outlines. I dont lose hyphens here when I do it that way. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050625/693e2575/attachment.pgp
